Testing the see-saw mechanism at collider energies
Testing the see-saw mechanism at collider energies
We propose a low energy extension of the Standard Model consisting of an additional gauged U(1)B-L plus three right-handed neutrinos. Although the lightest right-handed neutrinos have TeV scale masses and may be produced at colliders via their couplings to the ZB-L gauge boson, constraints from the out-of-equilibrium condition lead to stringent upper bounds on the right-handed neutrino production cross-sections at colliders. However we find that the mass of the ZB-L gauge boson may be sufficiently light to be discovered at collider energies, providing an indirect test of the see-saw mechanism. We propose a brane-world scenario which motivates such TeV mass right-handed neutrinos. Our analysis opens up the possibility that the mechanism responsible for neutrino mass is testable at colliders such as the LHC or VLHC.
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King, S.F.
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Yanagida, T.
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2006
King, S.F.
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Yanagida, T.
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King, S.F. and Yanagida, T.
(2006)
Testing the see-saw mechanism at collider energies.
Progress in Theoretical Physics, 114 (5), .
(doi:10.1143/PTP.114.1035).
Abstract
We propose a low energy extension of the Standard Model consisting of an additional gauged U(1)B-L plus three right-handed neutrinos. Although the lightest right-handed neutrinos have TeV scale masses and may be produced at colliders via their couplings to the ZB-L gauge boson, constraints from the out-of-equilibrium condition lead to stringent upper bounds on the right-handed neutrino production cross-sections at colliders. However we find that the mass of the ZB-L gauge boson may be sufficiently light to be discovered at collider energies, providing an indirect test of the see-saw mechanism. We propose a brane-world scenario which motivates such TeV mass right-handed neutrinos. Our analysis opens up the possibility that the mechanism responsible for neutrino mass is testable at colliders such as the LHC or VLHC.
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Submitted date: 10 June 2005
Published date: 2006
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/57396
ISSN: 0033-068X
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