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Barreiros, D.M.; Joaquim, F.R.; Srivastava, R.; Valle, J.W.F. |
| Title |
Minimal scoto-seesaw mechanism with spontaneous CP violation |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2021 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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04 |
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4 |
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249 - 21pp |
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Neutrino Physics; CP violation |
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We propose simple scoto-seesaw models to account for dark matter and neutrino masses with spontaneous CP violation. This is achieved with a single horizontal Z8 discrete symmetry, broken to a residual Z2 subgroup responsible for stabilizing dark matter. CP is broken spontaneously via the complex vacuum expectation value of a scalar singlet, inducing leptonic CP-violating effects. We find that the imposed Z8 symmetry pushes the values of the Dirac CP phase and the lightest neutrino mass to ranges already probed by ongoing experiments, so that normal-ordered neutrino masses can be cornered by cosmological observations and neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. |
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[Barreiros, D. M.; Joaquim, F. R.] Univ Lisbon, Dept Fis, Inst Super Tecn, Av Rovisco Pais 1, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal, Email: debora.barreiros@tecnico.ulisboa.pt; |
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WOS:000646917200003 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Valle, J.W.F. |
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Status and implications of neutrino masses: a brief panorama |
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Journal Article |
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2015 |
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International Journal of Modern Physics A |
Abbreviated Journal |
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A |
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30 |
Issue |
13 |
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1530034 - 13pp |
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Neutrino mixing and oscillations; seesaw mechanism; quark-lepton unification; flavor symmetry; electroweak symmetry breaking; neutrinoless double beta decay; dark matter; inflation |
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With the historic discovery of the Higgs boson our picutre of particle physics would have been complete were it nor for the neutrino sector and cosmology. I briefly discuss the role of neutrino masses and mixing upon gauge coupling unification, electroweak breaking and the flavor sector. Time is ripe for new discoveries such as leptonic CP violation, charged lepton flavor violation and neutrinoless double beta decay. Neutrinos could also play a role is elucidating the nature of dark matter and cosmic inflation. |
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Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46980 Valencia, Spain |
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World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd |
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0217-751x |
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WOS:000353955400002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2211 |
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Morisi, S.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Neutrino masses and mixing: a flavour symmetry roadmap |
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Journal Article |
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2013 |
Publication |
Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Fortschritte Phys.-Prog. Phys. |
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61 |
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4-5 |
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466-492 |
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Neutrino masses; neutrino mixing; flavour symmetry |
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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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0015-8208 |
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WOS:000317019900007 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1412 |
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Escrihuela, F.J.; Forero, D.V.; Miranda, O.G.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Probing CP violation with non-unitary mixing in long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments: DUNE as a case study |
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Journal Article |
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2017 |
Publication |
New Journal of Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
New J. Phys. |
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19 |
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093005 - 14pp |
| Keywords |
neutrino masses and mixings; neutrino oscillations; neutrino interactions |
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When neutrino masses arise from the exchange of neutral heavy leptons, as in most seesaw schemes, the effective lepton mixing matrix N describing neutrino propagation is non-unitary, hence neutrinos are not exactly orthonormal. New CP violation phases appear in N that could be confused with the standard phase delta(CP) characterizing the three neutrino paradigm. We study the potential of the long-baseline neutrino experiment DUNE in probing CP violation induced by the standard CP phase in the presence of non-unitarity. In order to accomplish this we develop our previous formalism, so as to take into account the neutrino interactions with the medium, important in long baseline experiments such as DUNE. We find that the expected CP sensitivity of DUNE is somewhat degraded with respect to that characterizing the standard unitary case. However the effect is weaker than might have been expected thanks mainly to the wide neutrino beam. We also investigate the sensitivity of DUNE to the parameters characterizing non-unitarity. In this case we find that there is no improvement expected with respect to the current situation, unless the near detector setup is revamped. |
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[Escrihuela, F. J.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J. W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Parc Cient Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: franesfe@alumni.uv.es; |
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1367-2630 |
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WOS:000410457100001 |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3292 |
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Bonilla, C.; Lamprea, J.M.; Peinado, E.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Flavour-symmetric type-II Dirac neutrino seesaw mechanism |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
Publication |
Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
| Volume |
779 |
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257-261 |
| Keywords |
Neutrino masses and mixing; Flavour physics |
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We propose a Standard Model extension with underlying A(4) flavour symmetry where small Dirac neutrino masses arise from a Type-II seesaw mechanism. The model predicts the “golden” flavour-dependent bottom-tau mass relation, requires an inverted neutrino mass ordering and non-maximal atmospheric mixing angle. Using the latest neutrino oscillation global fit[ 1] we derive restrictions on the oscillation parameters, such as a correlation between delta(CP) and m(nu lightest). |
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[Bonilla, Cesar; Valle, Jose W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Parc Cient Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: cesar.bonilla@ific.uv.es; |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000429098900032 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3566 |
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Bonilla, C.; Ma, E.; Peinado, E.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Two-loop Dirac neutrino mass and WIMP dark matter |
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Journal Article |
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2016 |
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Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
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762 |
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214-218 |
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Neutrino masses and mixing; Dark matter stability |
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We propose a “scotogenic” mechanism relating small neutrino mass and cosmological dark matter. Neutrinos are Dirac fermions with masses arising only in two-loop order through the sector responsible for dark matter. Two triality symmetries ensure both dark matter stability and strict lepton number conservation at higher orders. A global spontaneously broken U(1) symmetry leads to a physical Diraconthat induces invisible Higgs decays which add up to the Higgs to dark matter mode. This enhances sensitivities to spin-independent WIMP dark matter search below m(h)/2. |
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[Bonillaa, Cesar; Valle, Jose W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Edificio Inst Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: cesar.bonilla@ific.uv.es; |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000388473700029 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2979 |
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Bonilla, C.; Romao, J.C.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Electroweak breaking and neutrino mass: `invisible' Higgs decays at the LHC (type II seesaw) |
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Journal Article |
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2016 |
Publication |
New Journal of Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
New J. Phys. |
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18 |
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033033 - 21pp |
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neutrino mass; invisible Higgs decays; Higgs physics |
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Neutrino mass generation through the Higgs mechanism not only suggests the need to reconsider the physics of electroweak symmetry breaking from a new perspective, but also provides a new theoretically consistent and experimentally viable paradigm. We illustrate this by describing the main features of the electroweak symmetry breaking sector of the simplest type-II seesaw model with spontaneous breaking of lepton number. After reviewing the relevant `theoretical' and astrophysical restrictions on the Higgs sector, we perform an analysis of the sensitivities of Higgs Boson searches at the ongoing ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC, including not only the new contributions to the decay channels present in the standard model (SM) but also genuinely non-SM Higgs Boson decays, such as `invisible' Higgs Boson decays to majorons. We find sensitivities that are likely to be reached at the upcoming run of the experiments. |
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[Bonilla, Cesar; Valle, Jose W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Edificio Inst Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: cesar.bonilla@ific.uv.es; |
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1367-2630 |
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WOS:000373727500002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2621 |
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de Salas, P.F.; Forero, D.V.; Ternes, C.A.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Status of neutrino oscillations 2018: 3 sigma hint for normal mass ordering and improved CP sensitivity |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
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782 |
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633-640 |
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Neutrino mass and mixing; Neutrino oscillation; Solar and atmospheric neutrinos; Reactor and accelerator neutrinos; Neutrino telescopes |
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We present a new global fit of neutrino oscillation parameters within the simplest three-neutrino picture, including new data which appeared since our previous analysis[1]. In this update we include new long-baseline neutrino data involving the antineutrino channel in T2K, as well as new data in the neutrino channel, data from NO nu A, as well as new reactor data, such as the Daya Bay 1230 days electron antineutrino disappearance spectrum data and the 1500 live days prompt spectrum from RENO, as well as new Double Chooz data. We also include atmospheric neutrino data from the IceCube DeepCore and ANTARES neutrino telescopes and from Super-Kamiokande. Finally, we also update our solar oscillation analysis by including the 2055-day day/night spectrum from the fourth phase of the Super-Kamiokande experiment. With the new data we find a preference for the atmospheric angle in the upper octant for both neutrino mass orderings, with maximal mixing allowed at Delta chi(2)= 1.6 (3.2) for normal (inverted) ordering. We also obtain a strong preference for values of the CP phase delta in the range [pi, 2 pi], excluding values close to pi/2at more than 4 sigma. More remarkably, our global analysis shows a hint in favorof the normal mass ordering over the inverted one at more than 3 sigma. We discuss in detail the status of the mass ordering, CP violation and octant sensitivities, analyzing the interplay among the different neutrino data samples. |
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[de Salas, P. F.; Ternes, C. A.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J. W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Parc Cient Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: pabferde@ific.uv.es; |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000438486900094 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3665 |
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De Romeri, V.; Miranda, O.G.; Papoulias, D.K.; Sanchez Garcia, G.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Physics implications of a combined analysis of COHERENT CsI and LAr data |
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Journal Article |
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2023 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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04 |
Issue |
4 |
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035 - 41pp |
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Neutrino Interactions; Non-Standard Neutrino Properties |
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The observation of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering has opened the window to many physics opportunities. This process has been measured by the COHERENT Collaboration using two different targets, first CsI and then argon. Recently, the COHERENT Collaboration has updated the CsI data analysis with a higher statistics and an improved understanding of systematics. Here we perform a detailed statistical analysis of the full CsI data and combine it with the previous argon result. We discuss a vast array of implications, from tests of the Standard Model to new physics probes. In our analyses we take into account experimental uncertainties associated to the efficiency as well as the timing distribution of neutrino fluxes, making our results rather robust. In particular, we update previous measurements of the weak mixing angle and the neutron root mean square charge radius for CsI and argon. We also update the constraints on new physics scenarios including neutrino nonstandard interactions and the most general case of neutrino generalized interactions, as well as the possibility of light mediators. Finally, constraints on neutrino electromagnetic properties are also examined, including the conversion to sterile neutrino states. In many cases, the inclusion of the recent CsI data leads to a dramatic improvement of bounds. |
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[De Romeri, V.; Garcia, G. Sanchez; Tortola, M.; Valle, J. W. F.] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, CSIC, Parc Cientif Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran, 2, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: deromeri@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000966129600003 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5512 |
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Semikoz, V.B.; Sokoloff, D.D.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Lepton asymmetries and primordial hypermagnetic helicity evolution |
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Journal Article |
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2012 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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06 |
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6 |
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008 - 12pp |
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Magnetohydrodynamics; galactic magnetic fields; cosmic magnetic fields theory; particle physics – cosmology connection |
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The hypermagnetic helicity density at the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) exceeds many orders of magnitude the galactic magnetic helicity density. Together with previous magnetic helicity evolution calculations after the EWPT and hypermagnetic helicity conversion to the magnetic one at the EWPT, the present calculation completes the description of the evolution of this important topological feature of cosmological magnetic fields. It suggests that if the magnetic field seeding the galactic dynamo has a primordial origin, it should be substantially helical. This should be taken into account in scenarios of galactic magnetic field evolution with a cosmological seed. |
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[Semikoz, V. B.; Valle, J. W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: semikoz@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000306003500008 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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