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Hernandez, P. |
Title |
CP violation in the neutrino sector: The new frontier |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2012 |
Publication |
Comptes Rendus Physique |
Abbreviated Journal |
C. R. Phys. |
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13 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
186-192 |
Keywords |
Flavour physics; Neutrino physics; Matter-antimatter asymmetry |
Abstract |
The discovery of neutrino masses has revealed a new flavour sector in the Standard Model. Just like the quark flavour sector, it contains a seed of CP violation, resulting in an asymmetric behaviour of matter and antimatter. It is argued that this new source of leptonic CP violation may be discovered in more precise neutrino oscillation experiments involving neutrino beams with energies in the GeV range that will be sent to distances of a few thousand kilometres. |
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[Hernandez, Pilar] Dpto Fis Teor UV, Valencia 46071, Spain, Email: m.pilar.hernandez@uv.es |
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Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier |
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1631-0705 |
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WOS:000301037700015 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
934 |
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Morisi, S.; Valle, J.W.F. |
Title |
Neutrino masses and mixing: a flavour symmetry roadmap |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2013 |
Publication |
Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Fortschritte Phys.-Prog. Phys. |
Volume |
61 |
Issue |
4-5 |
Pages |
466-492 |
Keywords |
Neutrino masses; neutrino mixing; flavour symmetry |
Abstract |
Over the last ten years tri-bimaximal mixing has played an important role in modeling the flavour problem. We give a short review of the status of flavour symmetry models of neutrino mixing. We concentrate on non-Abelian discrete symmetries, which provide a simple way to account for the TBM pattern. We discuss phenomenological implications such as neutrinoless double beta decay, lepton flavour violation as well as theoretical aspects such as the possibility to explain quarks and leptons within a common framework, such as grand unified models. |
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Univ Valencia, AHEP Grp, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, Valencia 46071, Spain, Email: morisi@ific.uv.es |
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Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh |
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English |
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0015-8208 |
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WOS:000317019900007 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1412 |
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Author |
Bernabeu, J. |
Title |
Symmetries and Their Breaking in the Fundamental Laws of Physics |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2020 |
Publication |
Symmetry-Basel |
Abbreviated Journal |
Symmetry-Basel |
Volume |
12 |
Issue |
8 |
Pages |
1316 - 27pp |
Keywords |
flavour families; colour charges; gauge symmetries; chirality; discrete symmetries; neutrinos; spontaneous breaking |
Abstract |
Symmetries in the Physical Laws of Nature lead to observable effects. Beyond the regularities and conserved magnitudes, the last few decades in particle physics have seen the identification of symmetries, and their well-defined breaking, as the guiding principle for the elementary constituents of matter and their interactions. Flavour SU(3) symmetry of hadrons led to the Quark Model and the antisymmetric requirement under exchange of identical fermions led to the colour degree of freedom. Colour became the generating charge for flavour-independent strong interactions of quarks and gluons in the exact colour SU(3) local gauge symmetry. Parity Violation in weak interactions led us to consider the chiral fields of fermions as the objects with definite transformation properties under the weak isospin SU(2) gauge group of the Unifying Electro-Weak SU(2) x U(1) symmetry, which predicted novel weak neutral current interactions. CP-Violation led to three families of quarks opening the field of Flavour Physics. Time-reversal violation has recently been observed with entangled neutral mesons, compatible with CPT-invariance. The cancellation of gauge anomalies, which would invalidate the gauge symmetry of the quantum field theory, led to Quark-Lepton Symmetry. Neutrinos were postulated in order to save the conservation laws of energy and angular momentum in nuclear beta decay. After the ups and downs of their mass, neutrino oscillations were discovered in 1998, opening a new era about their origin of mass, mixing, discrete symmetries and the possibility of global lepton-number violation through Majorana mass terms and Leptogenesis as the source of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. The experimental discovery of quarks and leptons and the mediators of their interactions, with physical observables in spectacular agreement with this Standard Theory, is the triumph of Symmetries. The gauge symmetry is exact only when the particles are massless. One needs a subtle breaking of the symmetry, providing the origin of mass without affecting the excellent description of the interactions. This is the Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism, which produces the Higgs Boson as a remnant, discovered at CERN in 2012. Open present problems are addressed with by searching the New Physics Beyond-the-Standard-Model. |
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[Bernabeu, Jose] Univ Valencia, Dept Theoret Phys, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: Jose.Bernabeu@uv.es |
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Mdpi |
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WOS:000564717500001 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4523 |
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Penalva, N.; Hernandez, E.; Nieves, J. |
Title |
Visible energy and angular distributions of the charged particle from the tau-decay in b -> C tau (mu(nu)over-bar(mu)nu(tau), pi nu(tau), rho nu(tau))(nu)over-bar(tau) reactions |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2022 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
Volume |
04 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
026 - 25pp |
Keywords |
Bottom Quarks; Semi-Leptonic Decays; Flavour Symmetries; Left-Right Models |
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We study the d(2)Gamma(d)/(d omega d cos theta(d) ), d Gamma(d)/d cos theta(d) and d Gamma(d)/dE(d) distributions, which are defined in terms of the visible energy and polar angle of the charged particle from the tau-decay in b -> C tau (mu(nu) over bar (mu)nu(tau), pi nu(tau), rho nu(tau))(nu) over bar (tau), reactions. These differential decay widths could be measured in the near future with certain precision. The first two contain information on the transverse tau-spin, tau-angular and tau-angular-spin asymmetries of the H-b -> H-c tau(nu) over bar (tau) parent decay and, from a dynamical point of view, they are richer than the commonly used one, d(2)Gamma(d)/(d omega dE(d)), since the latter only depends on the tau longitudinal polarization. We pay attention to the deviations with respect to the predictions of the standard model (SM) for these new observables, considering new physics (NP) operators constructed using both right- and left-handed neutrino fields, within an effective field-theory approach. We present results for Lambda(b) -> Lambda(c)tau (mu(nu) over bar (mu)nu(tau), pi nu(tau), rho nu(tau))(nu) over bar (tau) and (B) over bar -> D-(*()) tau (mu(nu) over bar (mu)nu(tau), pi nu(tau), rho nu(tau))(nu) over bar (tau) sequential decays and discuss their use to disentangle between different NP models. In this respect, we show that d Gamma(d)/d cos theta(d) , which should be measured with sufficiently good statistics, becomes quite useful, especially in the tau -> pi nu(tau) mode. The study carried out in this work could be of special relevance due to the recent LHCb measurement of the lepton flavor universality ratio R Lambda(c) in agreement with the SM. The experiment identified the tau using its hadron decay into pi(-)pi(+)pi(-)nu(tau), and this result for R Lambda(c )which is in conflict with the phenomenology from the b-meson sector, needs confirmation from other tau reconstruction channels. |
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[Penalva, Neus; Nieves, Juan] Inst Fis Corpuscular Ctr Mixto CSIC UV, Inst Invest Paterna, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: neuspe@ific.uv.es; |
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Springer |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:000781361300001 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5195 |
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Herrero-Brocal, A.; Vicente, A. |
Title |
The majoron coupling to charged leptons |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2024 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
Volume |
01 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
078 - 33pp |
Keywords |
Axions and ALPs; Baryon/Lepton Number Violation; Lepton Flavour Violation (charged) |
Abstract |
The particle spectrum of all Majorana neutrino mass models with spontaneous violation of global lepton number include a Goldstone boson, the so-called majoron. The presence of this massless pseudoscalar changes the phenomenology dramatically. In this work we derive general analytical expressions for the 1-loop coupling of the majoron to charged leptons. These can be applied to any model featuring a majoron that have a clear hierarchy of energy scales, required for an expansion in powers of the low-energy scale to be valid. We show how to use our general results by applying them to some example models, finding full agreement with previous results in several popular scenarios and deriving novel ones in other setups. |
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[Herrero-Brocal, Antonio; Vicente, Avelino] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, Parc Cientif Paterna,C-Catedrat Jose Beltran,2, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: antonio.herrero@ific.uv.es; |
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Springer |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:001143228100004 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
5909 |
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