Neutrino masses and a fourth generation of fermions

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.11.023zbMATH Open1246.81457arXiv1110.0874OpenAlexW2038483606MaRDI QIDQ447238FDOQ447238

Authors: Michael A. Schmidt, Alexei Yu. Smirnov 

Publication date: 3 September 2012

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study neutrino mass generation in models with four chiral families of leptons and quarks and four right handed neutrinos. Generically, in these models there are three different contributions to the light neutrino masses: the usual see-saw contribution, the tree-level contribution due to mixing of light neutrinos with neutrino of the fourth generation, and the two loop contribution due to the Majorana mass term of the fourth neutrino. We study properties of these contributions and their experimental bounds. The regions of the parameters (mixings of the fourth neutrino, masses of RH neutrino components, etc.) have been identified where various contributions dominate. New possibilities of a realization of the flavour symmetries in the four family context are explored. In particular, we consider applications of the smallest groups, e.g. SG(20,3), with irreducible representation 4.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0874

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zbMATH Keywords

flavor symmetryfourth generationneutrino mass generation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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• Neutrino mass and spontaneous parity nonconservation
• The Strongly Coupled Fourth Family and a First-Order Electroweak Phase Transition. I: -- Quark Sector --
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Cited In (7)

• From the fourth color to spin-charge separation: Neutrinos and spinons
• Neutrino mass generation in SO(4) model
• Neutrino masses from new generations
• Neutrino masses in the \(\mathrm{SU}(4)_L\otimes \mathrm{U}(1)_x\) electroweak extension of the Standard Model
• Constraints on electroweak gauged unparticle model from the oblique parameters \(S\) and \(T\)
• Simultaneous extraction of the Fermi constant and PMNS matrix elements in the presence of a fourth generation
• Cosmoparticle physics of the 4th generation neutrino

Uses Software

• GAP

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