Sterile neutrinos, black hole vacuum and holographic principle
- Univ. of Valencia (Spain)
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
We construct an effective field theory (EFT) model that describes matter field interactions with Schwarzschild mini-black-holes (SBH’s), treated as a scalar field, B0(x). Fermion interactions with SBH’s require a complex spurion field, θij, which we interpret as the EFT description of “holographic information,” which is correlated with the SBH as a composite system. We consider Hawking’s virtual black hole vacuum (VBH) as a Higgs phase, $$\langle$$B0$$\rangle$$=V. Integrating sterile neutrino loops, the information field θij is promoted to a dynamical field, necessarily developing a tachyonic instability and acquiring a VEV of order the Planck scale. For N sterile neutrinos this breaks the vacuum to SU(N) × U(1)/SO(N) with N degenerate Majorana masses, and 12N(N+1) Nambu-Goldstone neutrino-Majorons. The model suggests many scalars fields, corresponding to all fermion bilinears, may exist bound nonperturbatively by gravity.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); European Regional Development Fund (FEDER); Generalitat Valenciana; European Union (EU)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; SEV-2014-0398; FIS2015-72245-EXP; FPA2017-845438; PROMETEOII/2017/033
- OSTI ID:
- 1569239
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-19-457-T; IFIC/19-37; arXiv:1909.01956; oai:inspirehep.net:1752571
- Journal Information:
- European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 2; ISSN 1434-6044
- Publisher:
- SpringerCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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