Probing the seesaw mechanism with cosmological data

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/007zbMATH Open1492.83109arXiv2002.05154OpenAlexW3101993487MaRDI QIDQ5070263FDOQ5070263

Authors: J. G. Rodrigues, Micol Benetti, Marcela Campista, J. S. Alcaniz 

Publication date: 11 April 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate cosmological consequences of an inflationary model which incorporates a generic seesaw extension (types I and II) of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. A non-minimal coupling between the inflaton field and the Ricci scalar is considered as well as radiative corrections at one loop order. This connection between the inflationary dynamics with neutrino physics results in a predictive model whose observational viability is investigated in light of the current cosmic microwave background data, baryon acoustic oscillation observations and type Ia supernovae measurements. Our results show that the non-minimal coupled seesaw potential provides a good description of the observational data when radiative corrections are positive. Such result favours the type II seesaw mechanism over type I and may be an indication for physics beyond the Standard Model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05154

zbMATH Keywords

inflationcosmology of theories beyond the SMcosmological parameters from CMBRneutrino masses from cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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• Possible discrepancies between cosmological and electroweak observables in Higgs inflation
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