Compromise between neutrino masses and collider signatures in the type-II seesaw model
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 918, Beijing 100049 (China)
A natural extension of the standard SU(2){sub L}xU(1){sub Y} gauge model to accommodate massive neutrinos is to introduce one Higgs triplet and three right-handed Majorana neutrinos, leading to a 6x6 neutrino mass matrix which contains three 3x3 submatrices, M{sub L}, M{sub D} and M{sub R}. We show that three light Majorana neutrinos (i.e., the mass eigenstates of {nu}{sub e}, {nu}{sub {mu}}, and {nu}{sub {tau}}) are exactly massless in this model, if and only if M{sub L}=M{sub D}M{sub R}{sup -1}M{sub D}{sup T} exactly holds. This no-go theorem implies that small but nonvanishing neutrino masses may result from a significant but incomplete cancellation between M{sub L} and M{sub D}M{sub R}{sup -1}M{sub D}{sup T} terms in the Type-II seesaw formula, provided three right-handed Majorana neutrinos are of O(1) TeV and experimentally detectable at the LHC. We propose three simple Type-II seesaw scenarios with the A{sub 4}xU(1){sub X} flavor symmetry and its explicit breaking to interpret the observed neutrino mass spectrum and neutrino mixing pattern. Such a TeV-scale neutrino model can be tested in two complementary ways: (1) searching for possible collider signatures of lepton number violation induced by the right-handed Majorana neutrinos and doubly-charged Higgs particles; and (2) searching for possible consequences of unitarity violation of the 3x3 neutrino mixing matrix in the future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.
- OSTI ID:
- 21035758
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 77, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.016001; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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