Spontaneous lepton-number breaking at electroweak scale

doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.2420

Title: Spontaneous lepton-number breaking at electroweak scale

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We propose some new models with spontaneous lepton-number breaking where the nuetrino masses and the couplings of the Goldstone boson (majoron) to charged fermions are naturally small because they arise in quantum loops. Thus, unlike other majoron models, we do not have to invoke any new scale in the model which is very different from the electroweak scale.

Authors:: Chang, D; Keung, W; Pal, P B

Publication Date:: 1988-11-21

Research Org.:: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201

OSTI Identifier:: 6701021

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Phys. Rev. Lett.; (United States)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 61:21

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; LEPTON NUMBER; SYMMETRY BREAKING; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; MAJORANA THEORY; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; NEUTRINOS; SU-2 GROUPS; U-1 GROUPS; WEAK INTERACTIONS; WEINBERG-SALAM GAUGE MODEL; BASIC INTERACTIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; LIE GROUPS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; U GROUPS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES; 645202* - High Energy Physics- Particle Interactions & Properties-Theoretical- Electromagnetic Interactions & Properties; 645203 - High Energy Physics- Particle Interactions & Properties-Theoretical- Weak Interactions & Properties

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                    Chang, D, Keung, W, and Pal, P B. Spontaneous lepton-number breaking at electroweak scale.  United States: N. p., 1988. 
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                    Chang, D, Keung, W, & Pal, P B. Spontaneous lepton-number breaking at electroweak scale.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.2420

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  abstractNote = {We propose some new models with spontaneous lepton-number breaking where the nuetrino masses and the couplings of the Goldstone boson (majoron) to charged fermions are naturally small because they arise in quantum loops. Thus, unlike other majoron models, we do not have to invoke any new scale in the model which is very different from the electroweak scale.},

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