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Seesaw Right Handed Neutrino as the Sterile Neutrino for LSND
We show that a double seesaw framework for neutrino masses with
exchange symmetry can lead to one of the righthanded seesaw partners of the
light neutrinos being massless. This can play the role of a light sterile
neutrino, giving a model that explains the LSND results. We get a very
economical scheme, which makes it possible to predict the full
neutrino mass matrix if CP is conserved. Once CP violation is included, effect
of the LSND mass range sterile neutrino is to eliminate the lower bound on
neutrinoless double beta decay rate which exists for the three neutrino case
with inverted mass hierarchy. The same strategy can also be used to generate a
natural model for LSND, which is also equally predictive for the CP
conserving case in the limit of exact symmetry.Comment: 13 pages and one figure; model extended to 3+2 cas
Production of qqQQ final states in ee collisions in the left-right symmetric model
We consider the reaction ee ->qqQQ as a test of lepton number
non-conservation in the framework of the left-right-symmetric electroweak
model. The main contributions to this process are due to Majorana neutrino
exchange in t-channel and doubly charged Higgs (Delta{--}) exchange in
s-channel with a pair of right-handed weak bosons (WR) as intermediate state.
We show that in a linear ee collider with the collision energy of 1 TeV (1.5
TeV) the cross section of this process is 0.01 fb (1 fb), and it will, for the
anticipated luminosity of 10**{35} cm**{-2}, be detectable below the WR
threshold. We study the sensitivity of the reaction on the masses of the heavy
neutrino, WR and Delta{--}.Comment: 24 pages, 9 eps figures, uses axodraw.st
Phenomenological Consequences of sub-leading Terms in See-Saw Formulas
Several aspects of next-to-leading (NLO) order corrections to see-saw
formulas are discussed and phenomenologically relevant situations are
identified. We generalize the formalism to calculate the NLO terms developed
for the type I see-saw to variants like the inverse, double or linear see-saw,
i.e., to cases in which more than two mass scales are present. In the standard
type I case with very heavy fermion singlets the sub-leading terms are
negligible. However, effects in the percent regime are possible when
sub-matrices of the complete neutral fermion mass matrix obey a moderate
hierarchy, e.g. weak scale and TeV scale. Examples are cancellations of large
terms leading to small neutrino masses, or inverse see-saw scenarios. We
furthermore identify situations in which no NLO corrections to certain
observables arise, namely for mu-tau symmetry and cases with a vanishing
neutrino mass. Finally, we emphasize that the unavoidable unitarity violation
in see-saw scenarios with extra fermions can be calculated with the formalism
in a straightforward manner.Comment: 22 pages, matches published versio
Reconciling Supersymmetry and Left-Right Symmetry
We construct the minimal supersymmetric left-right theory and show that at
the renormalizable level it requires the existence of an intermediate
breaking scale. The subsequent symmetry breaking down to MSSM automatically
preserves R-symmetry. Furthermore, unlike in the nonsupersymmetric version of
the theory, the see-saw mechanism takes its canonical form. The theory predicts
the existence of a triplet of Higgs scalars much lighter than the
breaking scale.Comment: 4 pages, revtex, no figure
Gauged Discrete Symmetries and Proton Stability
We discuss the results of a search for anomaly free Abelian Z_N discrete
symmetries that lead to automatic R-parity conservation and prevents dangerous
higher-dimensional proton decay operators in simple extensions of the minimal
supersymmetric extension of the standard model (MSSM) based on the left-right
symmetric group, the Pati-Salam group and SO(10). We require that the
superpotential for the models have enough structures to be able to give correct
symmetry breaking to MSSM and potentially realistic fermion masses. We find
viable models in each of the extensions and for all the cases, anomaly freedom
of the discrete symmetry restricts the number of generations.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures; v2 : typos fixed, references adde
Supersymmetry Breaking by Type II Seesaw Assisted Anomaly Mediation
Anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking (AMSB), when implemented in MSSM is
known to suffer from the problem of negative slepton mass squared leading to
breakdown of electric charge conservation. We show however that when MSSM is
extended to explain small neutrino masses by including a pair of superheavy
Higgs triplet superfields (the type II seesaw mechanism), the slepton masses
can be deflected from the pure AMSB trajectory and become positive. In a simple
model we present in this paper, the seesaw scale is about . Gauge coupling unification can be maintained by embedding the triplet to
SU(5) {\bf 15}-multiplet. In this scenario, bino is the LSP and its mass is
nearly degenerate with NLSP slepton when the triplet mass is right around the
seesaw scale.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures, added references, added footnote
Seesaw Extended MSSM and Anomaly Mediation without Tachyonic Sleptons
Superconformal anomalies provide an elegant and economical way to understand
the soft breaking parameters in SUSY models; however, implementing them leads
to the several undesirable features including: tachyonic sleptons and
electroweak symmetry breaking problems in both the MSSM and the NMSSM. Since
these two theories also have the additonal problem of massless neutrinos, we
have reconsidered the AMSB problems in a class of models that extends the NMSSM
to explain small neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism. In a recent paper,
we showed that for a class of minimal left-right extensions, a built-in
mechanism exists which naturally solves the tachyonic slepton problem and
provides new alternatives to the MSSM that also have automatic R-parity
conservation. In this paper, we discuss how electroweak symmetry breaking
arises in this model through an NMSSM-like low energy theory with a singlet
VEV, induced by the structure of the left-right extension and of the right
magnitude. We then study the phenomenological issues and find: the LSP is an
Higgsino-wino mix, new phenomenology for chargino decays to the LSP, degenerate
same generation sleptons and a potential for a mild squark-slepton degeneracy.
We also discuss possible collider signatures and the feasibility of dark matter
in this model.Comment: 40 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables; v3: Added addendum and three new
references; v4: Added reference that was inadvertently omitte
Searching for Strongly Interacting Massive Particles (SIMPs)
We consider laboratory experiments that can detect stable, neutral strongly
interacting massive particles (SIMPs). We explore the SIMP annihilation cross
section from its minimum value (restricted by cosmological bounds) to the barn
range, and vary the mass values from a GeV to a TeV. We calculate, as a
function of the SIMP-nucleon cross section, the minimum nucleon number A for
which there should be binding in a nucleus. We consider accelerator mass
spectrometry with a gold (A=200) target, and compute the likely abundance of
anomalous gold nuclei if stable neutral SIMPs exist. We also consider the
prospects and problems of detecting such particles at the Tevatron. We estimate
optimistically that such detection might be possible for SIMPs with
SIMP-nucleon cross sections larger than 0.1 millibarn and masses between 25 and
50 GeV.Comment: RevTeX, 10 pages, 3 figures; Minor updates to match published versio
Neutrino Mass and Grand Unification
Seesaw mechanism appears to be the simplest and most appealing way to
understand small neutrino masses observed in recent experiments. It introduces
three right handed neutrinos with heavy masses to the standard model, with at
least one mass required by data to be close to the scale of conventional grand
unified theories. This may be a hint that the new physics scale implied by
neutrino masses and grand unification of forces are one and the same. Taking
this point of view seriously, I explore different ways to resolve the puzzle of
large neutrino mixings in grand unified theories such as SO(10) and models
based on its subgroup .Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures; Invited talk at the Nobel Symposium 129 on
Neutrinos at Haga Slott, Sweden, August, 200
Neutrino, Lepton, and Quark Masses in Supersymmetry
The recently proposed model of neutrino mass with no new physics beyond the
TeV energy scale is shown to admit a natural and realistic supersymmetric
realization, when combined with another recently proposed model of quark masses
in the context of a softly broken U(1) symmetry. Four Higgs doublets are
required, but two must have masses at the TeV scale. New characteristic
experimental predictions of this synthesis are discussed.Comment: 7 pages, no figur
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