Spontaneous Breaking of Lepton Number and the Cosmological Domain Wall Problem

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151301

Title: Spontaneous Breaking of Lepton Number and the Cosmological Domain Wall Problem

Abstract

We show that if global lepton number symmetry is spontaneously broken in a postinflation epoch, then it can lead to the formation of cosmological domain walls. This happens in the well-known “Majoron paradigm” for neutrino mass generation. We propose some realistic examples that allow spontaneous lepton number breaking to be safe from such domain walls.

Authors:: Lazarides, George; Reig, Mario; Shafi, Qaisar; Srivastava, Rahul; Valle, José W. F.

Publication Date:: 2019-04-15

Research Org.:: Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Formación de profesorado universitario (FPU)

OSTI Identifier:: 1507190

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1656786

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0013880; FPA2017-85216-P; SEV-2014-0398; PROMETEO/2018/165; FPU16/01907

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: Physical Review Letters

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 122 Journal Issue: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: cosmic strings & domain walls; neutrino oscillations; neutrinos

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                    Lazarides, George, Reig, Mario, Shafi, Qaisar, Srivastava, Rahul, and Valle, José W. F. Spontaneous Breaking of Lepton Number and the Cosmological Domain Wall Problem.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Lazarides, George, Reig, Mario, Shafi, Qaisar, Srivastava, Rahul, & Valle, José W. F. Spontaneous Breaking of Lepton Number and the Cosmological Domain Wall Problem.  United States.  doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151301.

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                    Lazarides, George, Reig, Mario, Shafi, Qaisar, Srivastava, Rahul, and Valle, José W. F. Mon .  
        "Spontaneous Breaking of Lepton Number and the Cosmological Domain Wall Problem".  United States.  doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151301.

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@article{osti_1507190,

  title        = {Spontaneous Breaking of Lepton Number and the Cosmological Domain Wall Problem},

  author       = {Lazarides, George and Reig, Mario and Shafi, Qaisar and Srivastava, Rahul and Valle, José W. F.},

  abstractNote = {We show that if global lepton number symmetry is spontaneously broken in a postinflation epoch, then it can lead to the formation of cosmological domain walls. This happens in the well-known “Majoron paradigm” for neutrino mass generation. We propose some realistic examples that allow spontaneous lepton number breaking to be safe from such domain walls.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151301},

  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},

  number       = 15,

  volume       = 122,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2019},

  month        = {4}

}

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