Quark condensate seesaw mechanism for neutrino mass

A. Babič, S. Kovalenko, M. I. Krivoruchenko, F. Šimkovic

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Resumen

We study a mechanism of generation of Majorana neutrino mass due to spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry (SBCS) accompanied by the formation of a quark condensate. The effect of the condensate is transmitted to the neutrino sector via lepton-number violating (LNV) lepton-quark dimension-7 operators known in the literature as an origin of the neutrino-mass-independent mechanism of neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay. The smallness of neutrino masses is due to a large ratio between the LNV scale and the scale of the SBCS. This is a new realization of the seesaw mechanism, which we dub the quark condensate seesaw (QCSS). We examine the predictions of the QCSS for 0νββ-decay and neutrino mass spectrum. We will show that our model predicts the normal neutrino mass ordering and narrow ranges of the neutrino masses.

Idioma originalInglés
Número de artículo015007
PublicaciónPhysical Review D
Volumen103
N.º1
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 6 ene. 2021

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  • Física y astronomía (miscelánea)

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