European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields (Dec 2021)

Anomaly-free Abelian gauge symmetries with Dirac seesaws

  • Nicolás Bernal,
  • Diego Restrepo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09918-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 81, no. 12
pp. 1 – 11

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Abstract We perform a systematic analysis of Standard Model extensions with an additional anomaly-free gauge U(1) symmetry, to generate tree-level Dirac neutrino masses. An anomaly-free symmetry demands nontrivial conditions on the charges of the unavoidable new states. An intensive scan was performed, looking for solutions generating neutrino masses by the type-I and type-II tree-level Dirac seesaw mechanism, via operators with dimension 5 and 6, that correspond to active or dark symmetries. Special attention was paid to the cases featuring no extra massless chiral fermions or multicomponent dark matter with unconditional stability.