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Addazi, A.; Marciano, A.; Morais, A.P.; Pasechnik, R.; Srivastava, R.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Gravitational footprints of massive neutrinos and lepton number breaking |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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807 |
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135577 - 8pp |
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We investigate the production of primordial Gravitational Waves (GWs) arising from First Order Phase Transitions (FOPTs) associated to neutrino mass generation in the context of type-I and inverse seesaw schemes. We examine both “high-scale” as well as “low-scale” variants, with either explicit or spontaneously broken lepton number symmetry U(1)(L), in the neutrino sector. In the latter case, a pseudo-Goldstone majoron-like boson may provide a candidate for cosmological dark matter. We find that schemes with softly-broken U(1)(L), and with single Higgs-doublet scalar sector lead to either no FOPTs or too weak FOPTs, precluding the detestability of GWs in present or near future measurements. Nevertheless, we found that, in the majoron-like seesaw scheme with spontaneously broken U(1)(L), at finite temperatures, one can have strong FOPTs and non-trivial primordial GW spectra which can fall well within the frequency and amplitude sensitivity of upcoming experiments, including LISA, BBO and u-DECIGO. However, GWs observability clashes with invisible Higgs decay constraints from the LHC. A simple and consistent fix is to assume the majoron-like mass to lie above the Higgs-decay kinematical threshold. We also found that the majoron-like variant of the low-scale seesaw mechanism implies a different GW spectrum than the one expected in the high-scale seesaw. This feature will be testable in future experiments. Our analysis shows that GWs can provide a new and complementary portal to test the neutrino mass generation mechanism. |
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[Addazi, Andrea; Marciano, Antonino] Fudan Univ, Dept Phys, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China, Email: andrea.addazi@lngs.infn.it; |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000571765700055 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4543 |
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NA62 Collaboration (Cortina Gil, E. et al); Husek, T. |
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Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays to positrons |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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807 |
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135599 - 9pp |
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A search for heavy neutral lepton (N) production in K+ -> e(+)N decays using the data sample collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2017-2018 is reported. Upper limits of the extended neutrino mixing matrix element vertical bar U-e4 vertical bar(2) are established at the level of 10(-9) over most of the accessible heavy neutral lepton mass range 144-462 MeV/c(2), with the assumption that the lifetime exceeds 50 ns. These limits improve significantly upon those of previous production and decay searches. The vertical bar U-e4 vertical bar(2) range favoured by Big Bang Nucleosynthesis is excluded up to a mass of about 340 MeV/c(2). |
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[Gil, E. Cortina; Kleimenova, A.; Minucci, E.; Padolski, S.; Petrov, P.; Shaikhiev, A.; Volpe, R.] Catholic Univ Louvain, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium, Email: Evgueni.Goudzovski@cern.ch |
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WOS:000571765700067 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Leite, J.; Morales, A.; Valle, J.W.F.; Vaquera-Araujo, C.A. |
Title |
Scotogenic dark matter and Dirac neutrinos from unbroken gauged B – L symmetry |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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807 |
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135537 - 5pp |
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We propose a simple extension of the standard model where neutrinos get naturally small “scotogenic” Dirac masses from an unbroken gauged B – L symmetry, ensuring dark matter stability. The associated gauge boson gets mass through the Stueckelberg mechanism. Two scenarios are identified, and the resulting phenomenology briefly sketched. |
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[Leite, Julio; Valle, Jose W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, AHEP Grp, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Parc Cient Paterna,Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: julio.leite@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000571765700016 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4545 |
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ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al); Aparisi Pozo, J.A.; Bailey, A.J.; Cabrera Urban, S.; Castillo, F.L.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Cerda Alberich, L.; Costa, M.J.; Escobar, C.; Estrada Pastor, O.; Ferrer, A.; Fiorini, L.; Fullana Torregrosa, E.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Garcia Navarro, J.E.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G.R.; Guerrero Rojas, J.G.R.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Lacasta, C.; Lozano Bahilo, J.J.; Madaffari, D.; Mamuzic, J.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Miñano, M.; Mitsou, V.A.; Moreno Llacer, M.; Rodriguez Bosca, S.; Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.; Ruiz-Martinez, A.; Salt, J.; Santra, A.; Soldevila, U.; Sanchez, J.; Valero, A.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Vos, M. |
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Measurement of the t(t)over-bar production cross-section in the lepton plus jets channel at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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810 |
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135797 - 22pp |
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The top anti-top quark production cross-section is measured in the lepton+jets channel using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1). Events with exactly one charged lepton and four or more jets in the final state, with at least one jet containing b-hadrons, are used to determine the a production cross-section through a profile-likelihood t (t) over bar. The inclusive cross-section is measured to be alpha(inc) = 830 +/- 0.4 (stat.) +/- 36 (syst.) +/- 14 (lumi.) pb with a relative uncertainty of 4.6%. The result is consistent with theoretical calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. The fiducial t (t) over bar cross-section within the experimental acceptance is also measured. |
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[Deliot, F.; Duvnjak, D.; Jackson, P.; Kong, A. X. Y.; Oliver, J. L.; Petridis, A.; Qureshi, A.; Sharma, A. S.; White, M. J.] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
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WOS:000582969900023 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4585 |
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Dias, A.G.; Leite, J.; Valle, J.W.F.; Vaquera-Araujo, C.A. |
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Reloading the axion in a 3-3-1 setup |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2020 |
Publication |
Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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810 |
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135829 - 12pp |
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Peccei-Quinn symmetry; Axion; Neutrinos |
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We generalize the idea of the axion to an extended electroweak gauge symmetry setup. We propose a minimal axion extension of the Singer-Valle-Schechter (SVS) theory, in which the standard model fits in SU(3)(L) circle times U(1)(X), the number of families results from anomaly cancellation, and the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) solution to the strong-CP problem is implemented. Neutrino masses arise from a type-I Dirac seesaw mechanism, suppressed by the ratio of SVS and PQ scales, suggesting the existence of new physics at a moderate SVS scale. Novel features include an enhanced axion coupling to photons when compared to the DFSZ axion, as well as flavor-changing axion couplings to quarks. |
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[Dias, Alex G.; Leite, Julio] Univ Fed ABC, Ctr Ciencias Nat & Humanas, BR-09210580 Santo Andre, SP, Brazil, Email: alex.dias@ufabc.edu.br; |
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WOS:000582969900048 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4586 |
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