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Helo, J.C.; Hirsch, M.; Ota, T. |
Title  |
Proton decay and light sterile neutrinos |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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06 |
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6 |
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047 - 15pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
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Within the standard model, non-renormalizable operators at dimension six (d = 6) violate baryon and lepton number by one unit and thus lead to proton decay. Here, we point out that the proton decay mode with a charged pion and missing energy can be a characteristic signature of d = 6 operators containing a light sterile neutrino, if it is not accompanied by the standard pi(0)e(+) final state. We discuss this effect first at the level of effective operators and then provide a concrete model with new physics at the TeV scale, in which the lightness of the active neutrinos and the stability of the proton are related. |
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[Helo, Juan C.] Univ La Serena, Fac Ciencias, Dept Fis, Ave Cisternas 1200, La Serena, Chile, Email: jchelo@userena.cl; |
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WOS:000435023100004 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3610 |
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Helo, J.C.; Hirsch, M.; Ota, T. |
Title  |
Proton decay at one loop |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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99 |
Issue |
9 |
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095021 - 14pp |
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Proton decay is usually discussed in the context of grand unified theories. However, as is well known, in the standard model effective theory proton decay appears in the form of higher-dimensional non-renormalizable operators. Here, we study systematically the one-loop decomposition of the d = 6 B + L violating operators. We exhaustively list the possible one-loop ultraviolet completions of these operators and discuss that, in general, two distinct classes of models appear. Models in the first class need an additional symmetry in order to avoid tree-level proton decay. These models necessarily contain a neutral particle, which could act as a dark matter candidate. For models in the second class the loop contribution dominates automatically over the tree-level proton decay, without the need for additional symmetries. We also discuss possible phenomenology of two example models, one from each class, and their possible connections to neutrino masses, LHC searches and dark matter. |
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[Helo, Juan Carlos] Univ La Serena, Dept Fis, Fac Ciencias, Ave Cisternas 1200, La Serena 1200, Chile, Email: jchelo@userena.cl; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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2470-0010 |
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WOS:000469019900005 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4035 |
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Arbelaez, C.; Gonzalez, M.; Hirsch, M.; Kovalenko, S.G. |
Title  |
QCD corrections and long-range mechanisms of neutrinoless double beta decay |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2016 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
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94 |
Issue |
9 |
Pages |
096014 - 5pp |
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Recently it has been demonstrated that QCD corrections are numerically important for short-range mechanisms (SRM) of neutrinoless double beta decay (0 nu beta beta) mediated by heavy particle exchange. This is due to the effect of color mismatch for certain effective operators, which leads to mixing between different operators with vastly different nuclear matrix elements (NMEs). In this note we analyze the QCD corrections for long-range mechanisms (LRM), due to diagrams with light-neutrino exchange between a Standard Model (V-A)chi(V-A) and a beyond the SM lepton number violating vertex. We argue that in contrast to the SRM in the LRM case, there is no operator mixing from color-mismatched operators. This is due to a combined effect of the nuclear short-range correlations and color invariance. As a result, the QCD corrections to the LRM amount to an effect no more than 60%, depending on the operator in question. Although less crucial, taken into account QCD running makes theoretical predictions for 0 nu beta beta-decay more robust also for LRM diagrams. We derive the current experimental constraints on the Wilson coefficients for all LRM effective operators. |
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[Arbelaez, C.; Gonzalez, M.; Kovalenko, S. G.] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Ctr Cient Tecnol Valparaiso, Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile, Email: carolina.arbelaez@usm.cl; |
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WOS:000388823800017 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2888 |
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Gonzalez, M.; Kovalenko, S.G.; Hirsch, M. |
Title  |
QCD running in neutrinoless double beta decay: Short-range mechanisms |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2016 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
Volume |
93 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
013017 - 11pp |
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The decay rate of neutrinoless double beta (0 nu beta beta) decay contains terms from heavy particle exchange, which lead to dimension-9 (d = 9) six fermion operators at low energies. Limits on the coefficients of these operators have been derived previously neglecting the running of the operators between the high scale, where they are generated, and the energy scale of 0 nu beta beta decay, where they are measured. Here we calculate the leading-order QCD corrections to all possible d = 9 operators contributing to the 0 nu beta beta amplitude and use renormalization group running to calculate 1-loop improved limits. Numerically, QCD running dramatically changes some limits by factors of the order of or larger than typical uncertainties in nuclear matrix element calculations. For some specific cases, operator mixing in the running changes limits even by up to 3 orders of magnitude. Our results can be straightforwardly combined with new experimental limits or improved nuclear matrix element calculations to rederive updated limits on all short-range contributions to 0 nu beta beta decay. |
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[Gonzalez, M.; Kovalenko, S. G.] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Ctr Cient Tecnol Valparaiso, Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso 2390123, Chile, Email: marcela.gonzalezp@titulados.usm.cl; |
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1550-7998 |
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WOS:000368516100002 |
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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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2539 |
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Arbelaez, C.; Gonzalez, M.; Kovalenko, S.G.; Hirsch, M. |
Title  |
QCD-improved limits from neutrinoless double beta decay |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
Volume |
96 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
015010 - 12pp |
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We analyze the impact of QCD corrections on limits derived from neutrinoless double beta decay (0 nu beta beta ). As demonstrated previously, the effect of the color mismatch arising from loops with gluons linking the quarks from different color-singlet currents participating in the effective operators has a dramatic impact on the predictions for some particular Wilson coefficients. Here, we consider all possible contributions from heavy particle exchange, i.e. the so-called short-range mechanism of 0 nu beta beta decay. All high-scale models (HSM) in this class match at some scale around a similar to few TeV with the corresponding effective theory, containing a certain set of effective dimension-9 operators. Many of these HSM receive contributions from more than one of the basic operators and we calculate limits on these models using the latest experimental data. We also show with one nontrivial example, how to derive limits on more complicated models, in which many different Feynman diagrams contribute to 0 nu beta beta decay, using our general method. |
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[Arbelaez, C.; Gonzalez, M.; Kovalenko, S. G.] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Ctr Cient Tecnol Valparaiso, Casilla 110-5, Valparaiso, Chile, Email: carolina.arbelaez@usm.cl; |
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WOS:000405188200006 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3198 |
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Anamiati, G.; Fonseca, R.M.; Hirsch, M. |
Title  |
Quasi-Dirac neutrino oscillations |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2018 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
Volume |
97 |
Issue |
9 |
Pages |
095008 - 16pp |
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Dirac neutrino masses require two distinct neutral Weyl spinors per generation, with a special arrangement of masses and interactions with charged leptons. Once this arrangement is perturbed, lepton number is no longer conserved and neutrinos become Majorana particles. If these lepton number violating perturbations are small compared to the Dirac mass terms, neutrinos are quasi-Dirac particles. Alternatively, this scenario can be characterized by the existence of pairs of neutrinos with almost degenerate masses, and a lepton mixing matrix which has 12 angles and 12 phases. In this work we discuss the phenomenology of quasi-Dirac neutrino oscillations and derive limits on the relevant parameter space from various experiments. In one parameter perturbations of the Dirac limit, very stringent bounds can be derived on the mass splittings between the almost degenerate pairs of neutrinos. However, we also demonstrate that with suitable changes to the lepton mixing matrix, limits on such mass splittings are much weaker, or even completely absent. Finally, we consider the possibility that the mass splittings are too small to be measured and discuss bounds on the new, nonstandard lepton mixing angles from current experiments for this case. |
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[Anamiati, Gaetana; Fonseca, Renato M.; Hirsch, Martin] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Edificio Inst Paterna,Apartado 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: anamiati@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000432970600004 |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3581 |
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Anamiati, G.; De Romeri, V.; Hirsch, M.; Ternes, C.A.; Tortola, M. |
Title  |
Quasi-Dirac neutrino oscillations at DUNE and JUNO |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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100 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
035032 - 12pp |
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Quasi-Dirac neutrinos are obtained when the Lagrangian density of a neutrino mass model contains both Dirac and Majorana mass terms, and the Majorana terms are sufficiently small. This type of neutrino introduces new mixing angles and mass splittings into the Hamiltonian, which will modify the standard neutrino oscillation probabilities. In this paper, we focus on the case where the new mass splittings are too small to be measured, but new angles and phases are present. We perform a sensitivity study for this scenario for the upcoming experiments DUNE and JUNO, finding that they will improve current bounds on the relevant parameters. Finally, we also explore the discovery potential of both experiments, assuming that neutrinos are indeed quasi-Dirac particles. |
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[Anamiati, G.; De Romeri, V.; Hirsch, M.; Ternes, C. A.; Tortola, M.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Paterna 46980, Spain, Email: anamiati@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000482944200007 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4124 |
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Anamiati, G.; Hirsch, M.; Nardi, E. |
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Quasi-Dirac neutrinos at the LHC |
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Journal Article |
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2016 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
Volume |
10 |
Issue |
10 |
Pages |
010 - 19pp |
Keywords |
Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
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Lepton number violation is searched for at the LHC using same-sign leptons plus jets. The standard lore is that the ratio of same-sign lepton to opposite-sign lepton events, R-ll, is equal to R-ll = 1 (R-ll = 0) for Majorana (Dirac) neutrinos. We clarify under which conditions the ratio Rll can assume values different from 0 and 1, and we argue that the precise value 0 < R-ll < 1 is controlled by the mass splitting versus the width of the quasi-Dirac resonances. A measurement of R-ll not equal 0, 1 would then contain valuable information about the origin of neutrino masses. We consider as an example the inverse seesaw mechanism in a left-right symmetric scenario, which is phenomenologically particularly interesting since all the heavy states in the high energy completion of the model could be within experimental reach. A prediction of this scenario is a correlation between the values of R-ll and the ratio between the rates for heavy neutrino decays into standard model gauge bosons, and into three body final states ljj mediated by off-shell W-R exchange. |
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[Anamiati, G.; Hirsch, M.] Univ Valencia, AHEP Grp, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Edificio Inst Invest,Parc Cient Paterna, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: anamiati@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000385397800001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2834 |
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Adolf, P.; Hirsch, M.; Päs, H. |
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Radiative neutrino masses and the Cohen-Kaplan-Nelson bound |
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Journal Article |
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2023 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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11 |
Issue |
11 |
Pages |
078 - 14pp |
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Neutrino Mixing; Other Weak Scale BSM Models; Specific BSM Phenomenology |
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Recently, an increasing interest in UV/IR mixing phenomena has drawn attention to the range of validity of standard quantum field theory. Here we explore the consequences of such a limited range of validity in the context of radiative models for neutrino mass generation. We adopt an argument first published by Cohen, Kaplan and Nelson that gravity implies both UV and IR cutoffs, apply it to the loop integrals describing radiative corrections, and demonstrate that this effect has significant consequences for the parameter space of radiative neutrino mass models. |
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[Adolf, Patrick; Paes, Heinrich] Tech Univ Dortmund, Fak Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany, Email: patrick.adolf@tu-dortmund.de; |
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WOS:001120244000001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5851 |
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Arbelaez, C.; Carcamo Hernandez, A.E.; Cepedello, R.; Hirsch, M.; Kovalenko, S. |
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Radiative type-I seesaw neutrino masses |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2019 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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100 |
Issue |
11 |
Pages |
115021 - 7pp |
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We discuss a radiative type-I seesaw. In these models, the radiative generation of Dirac neutrino masses allows to explain the smallness of the observed neutrino mass scale for rather light right-handed neutrino masses in a type-1 seesaw. We first present the general idea in a model-independent way. This allows us to estimate the typical scale of right-handed neutrino mass as a function of the number of loops. We then present two example models, at the one- and two-loop level, which we use to discuss neutrino masses and lepton-flavor-violating constraints in more detail. For the two-loop example, right-handed neutrino masses must lie below 100 GeV, thus making this class of models testable in heavy neutral lepton searches. |
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[Arbelaez, Carolina; Carcamo Hernandez, A. E.; Kovalenko, Sergey] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Dept Phys, Ave Espana 1680, Valparaiso, Chile, Email: carolina.arbelaez@usm.cl; |
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WOS:000501488800006 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4221 |
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