Light neutrino masses from a non-Hermitian Yukawa theory
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Publication:6284368
DOI10.1088/1742-6596/873/1/012047arXiv1703.05251MaRDI QIDQ6284368FDOQ6284368
Jean Alexandre, Peter Millington, Carl M. Bender
Publication date: 15 March 2017
Abstract: Working within the context of PT-symmetric quantum mechanics, we begin by describing a non-Hermitian extension of QED that is both Lorentz invariant and consistent with unitarity. We show that the non-Hermitian Dirac mass matrix of this theory exhibits an exceptional point, corresponding to an effectively massless theory whose conserved current is either right- or left-chiral dominated. With this inspiration, we are able to construct a non-Hermitian model of light Dirac neutrino masses from Hermitian and anti-Hermitian Yukawa couplings that are both of order unity. We finish by highlighting potential phenomenological implications of this model.
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