TY  - JOUR
AU  - Barenboim, G.
AU  - Hill, C. T.
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021//
TI  - Sterile neutrinos, black hole vacuum and holographic principle
T2  - Eur. Phys. J. C
JO  - European Physical Journal C
SP  - 150
EP  - 9pp
VL  - 81
IS  - 2
PB  - Springer
AB  - We construct an effective field theory (EFT) model that describes matter field interactions with Schwarzschild mini-black-holes (SBH's), treated as a scalar field, B0(x). Fermion interactions with SBH's require a complex spurion field, theta ij, which we interpret as the EFT description of "holographic information," which is correlated with the SBH as a composite system. We consider Hawking's virtual black hole vacuum (VBH) as a Higgs phase, B0=V. Integrating sterile neutrino loops, the information field theta ij is promoted to a dynamical field, necessarily developing a tachyonic instability and acquiring a VEV of order the Planck scale. For N sterile neutrinos this breaks the vacuum to SU(N)xU(1)/SO(N) with N degenerate Majorana masses, and <mml:mfrac>12</mml:mfrac>N(N+1) Nambu-Goldstone neutrino-Majorons. The model suggests many scalars fields, corresponding to all fermion bilinears, may exist bound nonperturbatively by gravity.
SN  - 1434-6044
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01956
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-08928-w
DO  - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-08928-w
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000620366700002
ID  - Barenboim+Hill2021
ER  -