Journal of High Energy Physics (Mar 2024)

Radiative Majorana neutrino masses in a parity solution to the strong CP problem

  • Lawrence J. Hall,
  • Keisuke Harigaya,
  • Yogev Shpilman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2024)047
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 3
pp. 1 – 23

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Abstract The strong CP problem is solved in Parity symmetric theories, with the electroweak gauge group containing SU(2) L × SU(2) R broken by the minimal set of Higgs fields. Neutrino masses may be explained by adding the same number of gauge singlet fermions as the number of generations. The neutrino masses vanish at tree-level and are only radiatively generated, leading to larger couplings of right-handed neutrinos to Standard Model particles than with the tree-level seesaw mechanism. We compute these radiative corrections and the mixing angles between left- and right-handed neutrinos. We discuss sensitivities to these right-handed neutrinos from a variety of future experiments that search for heavy neutral leptons with masses from tens of MeV to the multi-TeV scale.

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