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Title: Gauged lepton flavour

Abstract

The gauging of the lepton flavour group is considered in the Standard Model context and in its extension with three right-handed neutrinos. The anomaly cancellation conditions lead to a Seesaw mechanism as underlying dynamics for all leptons; in addition, it requires a phenomenologically viable setup which leads to Majorana masses for the neutral sector: the type I Seesaw Lagrangian in the Standard Model case and the inverse Seesaw in the extended model. Within the minimal extension of the scalar sector, the Yukawa couplings are promoted to scalar fields in the bifundamental of the flavour group. The resulting low-energy Yukawa couplings are proportional to inverse powers of the vacuum expectation values of those scalars; the protection against flavour changing neutral currents differs from that of Minimal Flavour Violation. In every case, the μ - τ flavour sector exhibits rich and promising phenomenological signals.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [2]
  1. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland). Theory Division
  2. Autonomous Univ. of Madrid (Spain). Dept. of Theoretical Physics and Inst. of Theoretical Physics
  3. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
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Research Org.:
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1368036
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0009919
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2016; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Beyond Standard Model; Gauge Symmetry; Neutrino Physics; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Citation Formats

Alonso, Rodrigo, Fernandez Martinez, Enrique, Gavela, M. B., Grinstein, B., Merlo, Luca, and Quilez, Pablo. Gauged lepton flavour. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2016)119.
Alonso, Rodrigo, Fernandez Martinez, Enrique, Gavela, M. B., Grinstein, B., Merlo, Luca, & Quilez, Pablo. Gauged lepton flavour. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)119
Alonso, Rodrigo, Fernandez Martinez, Enrique, Gavela, M. B., Grinstein, B., Merlo, Luca, and Quilez, Pablo. Thu . "Gauged lepton flavour". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)119. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1368036.
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abstractNote = {The gauging of the lepton flavour group is considered in the Standard Model context and in its extension with three right-handed neutrinos. The anomaly cancellation conditions lead to a Seesaw mechanism as underlying dynamics for all leptons; in addition, it requires a phenomenologically viable setup which leads to Majorana masses for the neutral sector: the type I Seesaw Lagrangian in the Standard Model case and the inverse Seesaw in the extended model. Within the minimal extension of the scalar sector, the Yukawa couplings are promoted to scalar fields in the bifundamental of the flavour group. The resulting low-energy Yukawa couplings are proportional to inverse powers of the vacuum expectation values of those scalars; the protection against flavour changing neutral currents differs from that of Minimal Flavour Violation. In every case, the μ - τ flavour sector exhibits rich and promising phenomenological signals.},
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journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 12,
volume = 2016,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Thu Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2016}
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