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Falkowski, A.; Gonzalez-Alonso, M.; Naviliat-Cuncic, O. |
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Comprehensive analysis of beta decays within and beyond the Standard Model |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2021 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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04 |
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4 |
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126 - 36pp |
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Effective Field Theories; Beyond Standard Model; Quark Masses and SM Parameters |
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Precision measurements in allowed nuclear beta decays and neutron decay are reviewed and analyzed both within the Standard Model and looking for new physics. The analysis incorporates the most recent experimental and theoretical developments. The results are interpreted in terms of Wilson coefficients describing the effective interactions between leptons and nucleons (or quarks) that are responsible for beta decay. New global fits are performed incorporating a comprehensive list of precision measurements in neutron decay, superallowed 0(+)-> 0(+) transitions, and other nuclear decays that include, for the first time, data from mirror beta transitions. The results confirm the V-A character of the interaction and translate into updated values for V-ud and g(A) at the 10(-4) level. We also place new stringent limits on exotic couplings involving left-handed and right-handed neutrinos, which benefit significantly from the inclusion of mirror decays in the analysis. |
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[Falkowski, Adam] Univ Paris Saclay, CNRS, IN2P3, IJCLab, F-91405 Orsay, France, Email: adam.falkowski@ijclab.in2p3.fr; |
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WOS:000640519700002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4804 |
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Jimenez, R.; Kitching, T.; Pena-Garay, C.; Verde, L. |
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Can we measure the neutrino mass hierarchy in the sky? |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2010 |
Publication |
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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05 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
035 - 14pp |
| Keywords |
cosmological neutrinos; neutrino masses from cosmology; power spectrum; gravitational lensing |
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Cosmological probes are steadily reducing the total neutrino mass window, resulting in constraints on the neutrino-mass degeneracy as the most significant outcome. In this work we explore the discovery potential of cosmological probes to constrain the neutrino hierarchy, and point out some subtleties that could yield spurious claims of detection. This has an important implication for next generation of double beta decay experiments, that will be able to achieve a positive signal in the case of degenerate or inverted hierarchy of Majorana neutrinos. We find that cosmological experiments that nearly cover the whole sky could in principle distinguish the neutrino hierarchy by yielding 'substantial' evidence for one scenario over the another, via precise measurements of the shape of the matter power spectrum from large scale structure and weak gravitational lensing. |
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[Jimenez, Raul; Verde, Licia] Univ Barcelona, ICREA, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain, Email: raul.jimenez@icc.ub.edu |
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Iop Publishing Ltd |
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1475-7516 |
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ISI:000279490800005 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ elepoucu @ |
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418 |
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Cai, Y.; Herrero-Garcia, J.; Schmidt, M.A.; Vicente, A.; Volkas, R.R. |
| Title |
From the Trees to the Forest: A Review of Radiative Neutrino Mass Models |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Frontiers in Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Front. Physics |
| Volume |
5 |
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63 - 56pp |
| Keywords |
neutrino masses; lepton flavor violation; lepton number violation; beyond the standard model; effective field theory; model building; LHC; dark matter |
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A plausible explanation for the lightness of neutrino masses is that neutrinos are massless at tree level, with their mass (typically Majorana) being generated radiatively at one or more loops. The new couplings, together with the suppression coming from the loop factors, imply that the new degrees of freedom cannot be too heavy (they are typically at the TeV scale). Therefore, in these models there are no large mass hierarchies and they can be tested using different searches, making their detailed phenomenological study very appealing. In particular, the new particles can be searched for at colliders and generically induce signals in lepton-flavor and lepton-number violating processes (in the case of Majorana neutrinos), which are not independent from reproducing correctly the neutrino masses and mixings. The main focus of the review is on Majorana neutrinos. We order the allowed theory space from three different perspectives: (i) using an effective operator approach to lepton number violation, (ii) by the number of loops at which the Weinberg operator is generated, (iii) within a given loop order, by the possible irreducible topologies. We also discuss in more detail some popular radiative models which involve qualitatively different features, revisiting their most important phenomenological implications. Finally, we list some promising avenues to pursue. |
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[Cai, Yi] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Phys, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China, Email: juan.herrero-garcia@coepp.org.au; |
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Frontiers Research Foundation |
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2296-424x |
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WOS:000416908800001 |
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no |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3393 |
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de Salas, P.F.; Gariazzo, S.; Mena, O.; Ternes, C.A.; Tortola, M. |
| Title |
Neutrino Mass Ordering From Oscillations and Beyond: 2018 Status and Future Prospects |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2018 |
Publication |
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences |
Abbreviated Journal |
Front. Astron. Space Sci. |
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5 |
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36 - 50pp |
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neutrino mass ordering; neutrino oscillations; neutrinoless double beta (0v beta beta) decay; large scale structure formation; cosmic microwave Background (CMB); neutrino masses and flavor mixing |
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The ordering of the neutrino masses is a crucial input for a deep understanding of flavor physics, and its determination may provide the key to establish the relationship among the lepton masses and mixings and their analogous properties in the quark sector. The extraction of the neutrino mass ordering is a data-driven field expected to evolve very rapidly in the next decade. In this review, we both analyse the present status and describe the physics of subsequent prospects. Firstly, the different current available tools to measure the neutrino mass ordering are described. Namely, reactor, long-baseline (accelerator and atmospheric) neutrino beams, laboratory searches for beta and neutrinoless double beta decays and observations of the cosmic background radiation and the large scale structure of the universe are carefully reviewed. Secondly, the results from an up-to-date comprehensive global fit are reported: the Bayesian analysis to the 2018 publicly available oscillation and cosmological data sets provides strong evidence for the normal neutrino mass ordering vs. the inverted scenario, with a significance of 3.5 standard deviations. This preference for the normal neutrino mass ordering is mostly due to neutrino oscillation measurements. Finally, we shall also emphasize the future perspectives for unveiling the neutrinomass ordering. In this regard, apart from describing the expectations from the aforementioned probes, we also focus on those arising from alternative and novel methods, as 21 cm cosmology, core-collapse supernova neutrinos and the direct detection of relic neutrinos. |
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[de Salas, Pablo F.; Gariazzo, Stefano; Mena, Olga; Ternes, Christoph A.; Tortola, Mariam] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Valencia, Spain, Email: omena@ific.uv.es |
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Frontiers Media Sa |
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2296-987x |
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WOS:000446788500001 |
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no |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3755 |
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Figueroa, D.G.; Raatikainen, S.; Rasanen, S.; Tomberg, E. |
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Implications of stochastic effects for primordial black hole production in ultra-slow-roll inflation |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2022 |
Publication |
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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05 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
027 - 48pp |
| Keywords |
inflation; primordial black holes; dark matter theory; massive black holes |
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We study the impact of stochastic noise on the generation of primordial black hole (PBH) seeds in ultra-slow-roll (USR) inflation with numerical simulations. We consider the non-linearity of the system by consistently taking into account the noise dependence on the inflaton perturbations, while evolving the perturbations on the coarse-grained background affected by the noise. We capture in this way the non-Markovian nature of the dynamics, and demonstrate that non-Markovian effects are subleading. Using the Delta N formalism, we find the probability distribution P(R) of the comoving curvature perturbation R. We consider inflationary potentials that fit the CMB and lead to PBH dark matter with i) asteroid, ii) solar, or iii) Planck mass, as well as iv) PBHs that form the seeds of supermassive black holes. We find that stochastic effects enhance the PBH abundance by a factor of O(10)-O(10(8)), depending on the PBH mass. We also show that the usual approximation, where stochastic kicks depend only on the Hubble rate, either underestimates or overestimates the abundance by orders of magnitude, depending on the potential. We evaluate the gauge dependence of the results, discuss the quantum-to-classical transition, and highlight open issues of the application of the stochastic formalism to USR inflation. |
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[Figueroa, Daniel G.] CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: daniel.figueoa@ific.uv.es; |
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IOP Publishing Ltd |
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1475-7516 |
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WOS:000804493000010 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5239 |
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Garani, R.; Palomares-Ruiz, S. |
| Title |
Evaporation of dark matter from celestial bodies |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2022 |
Publication |
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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05 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
042 - 53pp |
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dark matter detectors; dark matter theory; massive stars; stars |
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Scatterings of galactic dark matter (DM) particles with the constituents of celestial bodies could result in their accumulation within these objects. Nevertheless, the finite temperature of the medium sets a minimum mass, the evaporation mass, that DM particles must have in order to remain trapped. DM particles below this mass are very likely to scatter to speeds higher than the escape velocity, so they would be kicked out of the capturing object and escape. Here, we compute the DM evaporation mass for all spherical celestial bodies in hydrostatic equilibrium, spanning the mass range [10(-)(10) – 10(2)] M-circle dot, for constant scattering cross sections and s-wave annihilations. We illustrate the critical importance of the exponential tail of the evaporation rate, which has not always been appreciated in recent literature, and obtain a robust result: for the geometric value of the scattering cross section and for interactions with nucleons, at the local galactic position, the DM evaporation mass for all spherical celestial bodies in hydrostatic equilibrium is approximately given by E-c/T-chi similar to 30, where E-c is the escape energy of DM particles at the core of the object and T-chi is their temperature. In that case, the minimum value of the DM evaporation mass is obtained for super-Jupiters and brown dwarfs, m(ev)(ap) similar or equal to 0.7 GeV. For other values of the scattering cross section, the DM evaporation mass only varies by a factor smaller than three within the range 10(-41) cm(2) <= sigma(p) <= 10(-31) cm(2), where sigma(p) is the spin-independent DM-nucleon scattering cross section. Its dependence on parameters such as the galactic DM density and velocity, or the scattering and annihilation cross sections is only logarithmic, and details on the density and temperature profiles of celestial bodies have also a small impact. |
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[Garani, Raghuveer] INFN Sez Firenze, Via G Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, Email: garani@fi.infn.it; |
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IOP Publishing Ltd |
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1475-7516 |
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WOS:000804029400004 |
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no |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5243 |
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Farzan, Y.; Tortola, M. |
| Title |
Neutrino oscillations and non-standard Interactions |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
Publication |
Frontiers in Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Front. Physics |
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6 |
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10 - 34pp |
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neutrino oscillations; leptonic CP violation; non-standard neutrino interactions; neutrino masses; neutrino physics |
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Current neutrino experiments are measuring the neutrino mixing parameters with an unprecedented accuracy. The upcoming generation of neutrino experiments will be sensitive to subdominant neutrino oscillation effects that can in principle give information on the yet-unknown neutrino parameters: the Dirac CP-violating phase in the PMNS mixing matrix, the neutrino mass ordering and the octant of.23. Determining the exact values of neutrino mass and mixing parameters is crucial to test various neutrino models and flavor symmetries that are designed to predict these neutrino parameters. In the first part of this review, we summarize the current status of the neutrino oscillation parameter determination. We consider the most recent data from all solar neutrino experiments and the atmospheric neutrino data from Super-Kamiokande, IceCube, and ANTARES. We also implement the data from the reactor neutrino experiments KamLAND, Daya Bay, RENO, and Double Chooz as well as the long baseline neutrino data from MINOS, T2K, and NO.A. If in addition to the standard interactions, neutrinos have subdominant yet-unknown Non-Standard Interactions (NSI) with matter fields, extracting the values of these parameters will suffer from new degeneracies and ambiguities. We review such effects and formulate the conditions on the NSI parameters under which the precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters can be distorted. Like standard weak interactions, the non-standard interaction can be categorized into two groups: Charged Current (CC) NSI and Neutral Current (NC) NSI. Our focus will bemainly on neutral current NSI because it is possible to build a class of models that give rise to sizeable NC NSI with discernible effects on neutrino oscillation. These models are based on new U(1) gauge symmetry with a gauge boson of mass. 10 MeV. The UV complete model should be of course electroweak invariant which in general implies that along with neutrinos, charged fermions also acquire new interactions on which there are strong bounds. We enumerate the bounds that already exist on the electroweak symmetric models and demonstrate that it is possible to build viable models avoiding all these bounds. In the end, we review methods to test these models and suggest approaches to break the degeneracies in deriving neutrino mass parameters caused by NSI. |
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[Farzan, Yasaman] Inst Res Fundamental Sci, Sch Phys, Tehran, Iran, Email: mariam@ific.uv.es |
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Frontiers Research Foundation |
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WOS:000426198100001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3502 |
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Lopez-Ibañez, M.L.; Melis, A.; Meloni, D.; Vives, O. |
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Lepton flavor violation and neutrino masses from A(5) and CP in the non-universal MSSM |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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06 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
047 - 34pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics; Quark Masses and SM Parameters; Supersymmetric Standard Model |
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We analyze the phenomenological consequences of embedding a flavor symmetry based on the groups A(5) and CP in a supersymmetric framework. We concentrate on the leptonic sector, where two different residual symmetries are assumed to be conserved at leading order for charged and neutral leptons. All possible realizations to generate neutrino masses at tree level are investigated. Sizable flavor violating effects in the charged lepton sector are unavoidable due to the non-universality of soft-breaking terms determined by the symmetry. We derive testable predictions for the neutrino spectrum, lepton mixing and flavor changing processes with non-trivial relations among observables. |
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[Lopez-Ibanez, M. L.; Meloni, Davide] Univ Roma Tre, Dipartimento Matemat & Fis, Via Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Rome, Italy, Email: maloi2@uv.es; |
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WOS:000471630100001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4057 |
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Arbelaez, C.; Carcamo Hernandez, A.E.; Cepedello, R.; Kovalenko, S.; Schmidt, I. |
| Title |
Sequentially loop suppressed fermion masses from a single discrete symmetry |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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06 |
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6 |
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043 - 24pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics; Quark Masses and SM Parameters |
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We propose a systematic and renormalizable sequential loop suppression mechanism to generate the hierarchy of the Standard Model fermion masses from one discrete symmetry. The discrete symmetry is sequentially softly broken in order to generate one-loop level masses for the bottom, charm, tau and muon leptons and two-loop level masses for the lightest Standard Model charged fermions. The tiny masses for the light active neutrinos are produced from radiative type-I seesaw mechanism, where the Dirac mass terms are effectively generated at two-loop level. |
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[Arbelaez, Carolina; Carcamo Hernandez, A. E.; Schmidt, Ivan] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Casilla 110-5, Valparaiso, Chile, Email: carolina.arbelaez@usm.cl; |
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WOS:000540500300001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4430 |
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Calibbi, L.; Lopez-Ibañez, M.L.; Melis, A.; Vives, O. |
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Muon and electron g – 2 and lepton masses in flavor models |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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06 |
Issue |
6 |
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087 - 23pp |
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Precision QED; Beyond Standard Model; Effective Field Theories; Quark Masses and SM Parameters |
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The stringent experimental bound on μ-> e gamma is compatible with a simultaneous and sizable new physics contribution to the electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments (g – 2)(l) (l = e, mu), only if we assume a non-trivial flavor structure of the dipole operator coefficients. We propose a mechanism in which the realization of the (g – 2)(l) correction is manifestly related to the mass generation through a flavor symmetry. A radiative flavon correction to the fermion mass gives a contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment. In this framework, we introduce a chiral enhancement from a non-trivial O(1) quartic coupling of the scalar potential. We show that the muon and electron anomalies can be simultaneously explained in a vast region of the parameter space with predicted vector-like mediators of masses as large as M chi is an element of [0.6, 2.5] TeV. |
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[Calibbi, Lorenzo] Nankai Univ, Sch Phys, Tianjin 300071, Peoples R China, Email: calibbi@nankai.edu.cn; |
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WOS:000542705000001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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