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Title: Doubly-charged scalars in the type II seesaw mechanism: Fundamental symmetry tests and high-energy searches

Abstract

We analyze the sensitivity of low-energy fundamental symmetry tests to interactions mediated by doubly-charged scalars that arise in type II seesaw models of neutrino mass and their left-right symmetric extensions. We focus on the next generation measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in Møller scattering planned by the MOLLER collaboration at Jefferson Laboratory. We compare the MOLLER sensitivity to that of searches for charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) and neutrinoless double beta-decay (0νββ-decay) as well as present and possible future high-energy collider probes. Here we show that for the simplest type-II seesaw scenario, CLFV searches have the greatest sensitivity. However, in a left-right symmetric extension where the scale of parity-breaking is decoupled from the SU(2)R-breaking scale, the MOLLER experiment will provide a unique probe of scalar triplet interactions in the right-handed sector for a doubly-charged scalar mass up to ~ 10 TeV and help elucidate the mechanism of 0νββ-decay.

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Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1469745
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1501454
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0011095
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 98 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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Dev, P. S. Bhupal, Ramsey-Musolf, Michael J., and Zhang, Yongchao. Doubly-charged scalars in the type II seesaw mechanism: Fundamental symmetry tests and high-energy searches. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.055013.
Dev, P. S. Bhupal, Ramsey-Musolf, Michael J., & Zhang, Yongchao. Doubly-charged scalars in the type II seesaw mechanism: Fundamental symmetry tests and high-energy searches. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.055013
Dev, P. S. Bhupal, Ramsey-Musolf, Michael J., and Zhang, Yongchao. 2018. "Doubly-charged scalars in the type II seesaw mechanism: Fundamental symmetry tests and high-energy searches". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.055013.
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title = {Doubly-charged scalars in the type II seesaw mechanism: Fundamental symmetry tests and high-energy searches},
author = {Dev, P. S. Bhupal and Ramsey-Musolf, Michael J. and Zhang, Yongchao},
abstractNote = {We analyze the sensitivity of low-energy fundamental symmetry tests to interactions mediated by doubly-charged scalars that arise in type II seesaw models of neutrino mass and their left-right symmetric extensions. We focus on the next generation measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in Møller scattering planned by the MOLLER collaboration at Jefferson Laboratory. We compare the MOLLER sensitivity to that of searches for charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) and neutrinoless double beta-decay (0νββ-decay) as well as present and possible future high-energy collider probes. Here we show that for the simplest type-II seesaw scenario, CLFV searches have the greatest sensitivity. However, in a left-right symmetric extension where the scale of parity-breaking is decoupled from the SU(2)R-breaking scale, the MOLLER experiment will provide a unique probe of scalar triplet interactions in the right-handed sector for a doubly-charged scalar mass up to ~ 10 TeV and help elucidate the mechanism of 0νββ-decay.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.98.055013},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1469745}, journal = {Physical Review D},
issn = {2470-0010},
number = 5,
volume = 98,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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