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A Three Higgs Doublet Model for the Fermion Mass Hierarchy Problem
In this paper we propose a possible explanation to the Fermion mass hierarchy problem by fitting the type-II seesaw mechanism into the Higgs doublet sector, such that their vacuum expectation values are hierarchal. We extend the Standard Model with two extra Higgs doublets as well as a spontaneously broken $U_X(1)$ gauge symmetry. All the fermion Yukawa couplings except that of top quark are of order ${\cal O} (10^{-2})$ in our model. Constraints on the parameter space from Electroweak precision measurements are studied. Besides, the neutral component of the new fields, which are introduced to cancel the anomalies of the $U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry can be dark matter candidate. We investigate its signature in the dark matter direct detection.
119236167
Correlative signatures of heavy Majorana neutrinos and doubly-charged Higgs bosons at the Large Hadron Collider
Abstract We explore an intriguing possibility to test the type-II seesaw mechanism of neutrino mass generation at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We show that the lepton-number-violating signatures of heavy Majorana neutrinos N i (for i = 1 , 2 , 3 ) and doubly-charged Higgs bosons H ± ± can be closely correlated with each other in a class of TeV-scale type-II seesaw models. Taking the minimal version of such models for example, we calculate the cross sections of p p → l α ± l β ± X processes mediated separately by N 1 and H ± ± , and illustrate their nontrivial correlation at the LHC.
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Neutrino masses and lepton-flavor-violating τ decays in the supersymmetric left-right model
In the supersymmetric left-right model, the light neutrino masses are given by the Type-II seesaw mechanism. A duality property of this mechanism indicates that there exist eight possible Higgs triplet Yukawa couplings which result in the same neutrino mass matrix. In this paper, we work out the one-loop renormalization group equations for the effective neutrino mass matrix in the supersymmetric left-right model. The stability of the Type-II seesaw scenario is briefly discussed. We also study the lepton-flavor-violating processes (tau -> mu gamma and tau -> e gamma) by using the reconstructed Higgs triplet Yukawa couplings.
118662547
Compromise between neutrino masses and collider signatures in the type-II seesaw model
A natural extension of the standard $\mathrm{SU}(2{)}_{\mathrm{L}}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\mathrm{U}(1{)}_{\mathrm{Y}}$ gauge model to accommodate massive neutrinos is to introduce one Higgs triplet and three right-handed Majorana neutrinos, leading to a $6\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}6$ neutrino mass matrix which contains three $3\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}3$ submatrices, ${M}_{\mathrm{L}}$, ${M}_{\mathrm{D}}$ and ${M}_{\mathrm{R}}$. We show that three light Majorana neutrinos (i.e., the mass eigenstates of ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{e}$, ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}$, and ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\tau}}$) are exactly massless in this model, if and only if ${M}_{\mathrm{L}}={M}_{\mathrm{D}}{M}_{\mathrm{R}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}{M}_{\mathrm{D}}^{T}$ exactly holds. This no-go theorem implies that small but nonvanishing neutrino masses may result from a significant but incomplete cancellation between ${M}_{\mathrm{L}}$ and ${M}_{\mathrm{D}}{M}_{\mathrm{R}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}{M}_{\mathrm{D}}^{T}$ terms in the Type-II seesaw formula, provided three right-handed Majorana neutrinos are of $\mathcal{O}(1)\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}$ and experimentally detectable at the LHC. We propose three simple Type-II seesaw scenarios with the ${A}_{4}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\mathrm{U}(1{)}_{\mathrm{X}}$ flavor symmetry and its explicit breaking to interpret the observed neutrino mass spectrum and neutrino mixing pattern. Such a TeV-scale neutrino model can be tested in two complementary ways: (1) searching for possible collider signatures of lepton number violation induced by the right-handed Majorana neutrinos and doubly-charged Higgs particles; and (2) searching for possible consequences of unitarity violation of the $3\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}3$ neutrino mixing matrix in the future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.
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Neutrino mixing and leptogenesis in type-II seesaw scenarios with left-right symmetry
Abstract We propose two type-II seesaw scenarios for the neutrino mass matrix in the left–right symmetric model, in which the Higgs triplet Yukawa coupling matrix takes the appealing Friedberg–Lee texture. We show that the nearly tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing pattern, which is especially favored by current neutrino oscillation data, can be obtained from both scenarios. We also show that the cosmological baryon number asymmetry can naturally be interpreted in these two scenarios via the flavor-independent leptogenesis mechanism.
118448034
Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter and B-L Symmetry at the LHC
We establish a hybrid seesaw mechanism to explain small neutrino masses and predict cold dark matter candidate in the context of the B − L gauge symmetry extension of the Standard Model. In this model a new scalar doublet and two new fermion singlets are introduced at loop-level beyond the minimal Type I seesaw. The lightest particle inside the loop can be dark matter candidate. We study in detail the constraints from neutrino oscillation data, lepton flavor violating processes and cosmological observation. We also explore the predictions of the decays of the new charged scalars in each spectrum of neutrino masses and show the most optimistic scenarios to distinguish the spectra. We consider the pair production of the stable fermion associated with two observable SM charged leptons at �
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The mesonic fluctuations and corrections in the chiral symmetry breaking vacuum
Abstract The mesonic quantum fluctuations and their corrections on the chiral condensate and pion polarization function are investigated in the self-consistent scheme of SU(2) Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model by exactly calculating the next-to-leading order (NLO) Feynman diagrams in 1/ N c expansion. While the fluctuations and corrections depend strongly on the meson's three-momentum cut-off Λ M , no chiral symmetry restoration is found since the cancellation between the NLO and the one-quark-loop diagram with quark mass deviated from the mean-field value.
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COLOR SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AT MODERATE DENSITY
The effect of color breaking on colored quarks' chiral condensates has been investigated at zero temperature and moderate baryon density. It is found that the influence of the diquark condensate on different colored quarks is very small.
119437903
Charge neutrality effects on two-flavor color superconductivity
Four different phases of the two-flavor quark system, i.e., the normal quark matter and color superconducting phases with and without the charge neutrality condition, are investigated in the framework of the SU(2) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. It is found that the color superconducting phase without charge neutrality has the lowest thermodynamic potential, and the charge neutral systems have higher thermodynamic potentials. However, the BCS pairing always lowers the system's thermodynamic potential, i.e., for both the charged and charge neutral systems, the superconducting phases always have lower thermodynamic potentials. Compared with the BCS gap Delta(0) for the color superconducting phase without charge neutrality, the BCS gap Delta in the charge neutral color superconducting phase has been largely reduced. When the thermodynamic potential for the charge neutral color superconducting phase equals that in the neutral normal quark matter, the diquark condensate disappears.
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GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS IN BUBBLE COLLISIONS
We investigate the effects of gravitation in the collision of two bubbles in the very early universe, using the thin-wall approximation. In general, the collision of two bubbles gives rise to modulus wall and a phase wave. The space-time metric and all physical quantities possess hyperbolic O(2,1) symmetry. We derive a generalized Birkhoff's theorem to show that the space-time in different regions must therefore be flat, de Sitter, pseudo-Schwarzschild, and pseudo-Schwarzschild-de Sitter, respectively. As in the spherically symmetric O(3) case, the space-time is Petrov type $D$, and so there is no gravitational radiation. Owing to the special symmetry of the space-time, the concentration of matter does not suffice to cause any gravitational collapse to a singularity no matter how severely the two bubbles collide. The modulus walls, viewed from the real vacuum region, eventually propagate outwards with kinks due to a series of collisions, in contrast to the situation in the absence of gravity.
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THE RELATION BETWEEN K+/PI+ RATIO AND SECONDARY COLLISIONS IN ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS
Based on the concept of the formation time, the contribution of secondary collisions to the change of the K+/π+ ratio in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is calculated. The result shows that the effect of secondary collisions in the target nucleus is not enough to explain the observed change of the K+/π+ ratio.