Neutrino electron scattering and left-right symmetry: future tests

Low-energy high-resolution neutrino-electron scattering experiments may play an important role in testing the gauge structure of the electroweak interaction. We propose the use of radioactive neutrino sources (e.g. $^{51}$Cr) in underground experiments such as BOREXINO and HELLAZ as a probe of the weak neutral current structure. As an illustration, we display the sensitivity of these detectors in testing the possible existence of right-handed weak neutral currents.Comment: 4 pages. Latex. 1 figure. Contributed paper, WIN97, Capri, Italy, June 199

A Flipped SO(10) GUT Model and the Fermion Mass Hierarchy

We present a viable flipped version of the SO(10) model consistent with the phenomenological requirements of having a non-trivial quark mixing matrix, natural doublet-triplet splitting, and a single pair of light electroweak Higgs doublet scalar bosons. In the presence of suitable non-renormalizable superpotential terms the model can reproduce the hierarchy observed in quark masses and mixings as well as an acceptable neutrino mass generated via the seesaw mechanism needed to explain dark matter and solar neutrino data.Comment: tex file, 20 page

Novel scalar boson decays in SUSY with broken r-parity

R parity violation can induce mixing of the supersymmetric Higgs bosons with the sneutrinos at the tree level. We study the effect of this mixing on the decays of Higgs scalars as well as sneutrinos in an effective model where the violation of R parity is included in the minimal supersymmetric model through bilinear lepton number violating superpotential terms. We show that a small violation of R parity can lead to a sizeable branching ratio for the supersymmetric Higgs boson decay mode H→χℓ (where χ denotes an electroweak gaugino and ℓ is either a tau neutrino or a tau lepton). Relevant constraints on R parity violation as well as those coming from SUSY particle searches still allow the decay H→χℓ to compete with the conventional decay H\ra b \bar{b}, at least for some ranges of parameters of the model. Moreover, the tau sneutrino will have dominant R parity violating decays to standard model fermions bb¯, τ+τ− or to the invisible mode νν¯ whenever the phase space for R parity conserving channels is closed

Charged Higgs boson and stau phenomenology in the simplest R-parity breaking model

We consider the charged scalar boson phenomenology in the simplest effective low-energy R-parity breaking model characterized by a bilinear violation of R-parity in the superpotential. This induces a mixing between staus and the charged Higgs boson. We show that the charged Higgs boson mass can be lower than expected in the MSSM, even before including radiative corrections. We also study the charged scalar boson decay branching ratios and show that the R-parity violating decay rates can be comparable or even bigger than the R-parity conserving ones. Moreover, if the stau is the LSP it will have only decays into standard model fermions. These features could have important implications for charged supersymmetric scalar boson searches at future accelerators

Left-Right Symmetry Breaking in NJL Approach

We study left-right symmetric models which contain only fermion and gauge boson fields and no elementary scalars. The Higgs bosons are generated dynamically through a set of gauge- and parity-invariant 4-fermion operators. It is shown that in a model with a composite bi-doublet and two triplet scalars there is no parity breaking at low energies, whereas in the model with two doublets instead of two triplets parity is broken automatically regardless of the choice of the parameters of the model. For phenomenologically allowed values of the right-handed scale a tumbling symmetry breaking mechanism is realized in which parity breaking at a high scale $\mu_R$ propagates down and eventually causes the \EW symmetry breaking at the scale $\mu_{EW}\sim 100~GeV$. The model exhibits a number of low and intermediate mass Higgs bosons with certain relations between their masses. In particular, the components of the $SU(2)_L$ Higgs doublet $\chi_L$ are pseudo--\GBs of an accidental (approximate) $SU(4)$ symmetry of the Higgs potential and therefore are expected to be relatively light.Comment: 16 pages, latex and uuencoded, packed Postscript figures. The complete paper, including figures, is also available via WWW at http://www.cip.physik.tu-muenchen.de/tumphy/d/T30d/PAPERS/TUM-HEP-221-95.p

Seesaw Majoron Model of Neutrino Mass and Novel Signals in Higgs Boson Production at LEP

We perform a careful study of the neutral scalar sector of a model which includes a singlet, a doublet, and a triplet scalar field under $SU(2)$. This model is motivated by neutrino physics, since it is simply the most general version of the seesaw model of neutrino mass generation through spontaneous violation of lepton number. The neutral Higgs sector contains three CP-even and one massive CP-odd Higgs boson $A$, in addition to the massless CP-odd majoron $J$. The weakly interacting majoron remains massless if the breaking of lepton number symmetry is purely spontaneous. We show that the massive CP-odd Higgs boson may invisibly decay to three majorons, as well as to a CP-even Higgs $H$ boson plus a majoron. We consider the associated Higgs production $e^+e^- \to Z \to H A$ followed by invisible decays $A \to JJJ$ and $H \to JJ$ and derive the corresponding limits on masses and coupling that follow from LEP I precision measurements of the invisible Z width. We also study a novel $b \bar{b} b\bar{b}p\!\!\!/_T$ signal predicted by the model, analyse the background and perform a Monte-Carlo simulation of the signal in order to illustrate the limits on Higgs boson mass, couplings and branching ratios that follow from that.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures, late

Neutrinos Properties Beyond the Standard Model

The present observational status of neutrino physics is sketched, with emphasis on the hints that follow from solar and atmospheric neutrino observations, as well as dark matter. I also briefly review the ways to account for the observed anomalies and some of their implicationsComment: 14 pages. Latex. 12 figures. Plenary talk, WIN97, Capri, Italy, June 1997. Minor changes, references and acknowledgements adde

Massive neutrinos and electroweak baryogenesis

We show that certain models for neutrino masses that lead to the MSW explanation of the solar neutrino data and/or the hot dark matter component in the universe can also naturally allow for the successful generation of the cosmological baryon asymmetry at the electroweak scale. This follows either because the experimental Higgs boson mass limit is weakened due to the smaller production rate and the presence of sizeable invisible decays involving majoron emission, or due to the effect of additional electrically charged scalar bosons which substantially modify the condition for succesful baryogenesis.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX, FTUV/92-60 and IFIC/92-6

Future Opportunities in Accelerator-based Neutrino Physics

International audienceThis document summarizes the conclusions of the Neutrino Town Meeting held at CERN in October 2018 to review the neutrino field at large with the aim of defining a strategy for accelerator-based neutrino physics in Europe. The importance of the field across its many complementary components is stressed. Recommendations are presented regarding the accelerator based neutrino physics, pertinent to the European Strategy for Particle Physics. We address in particular i) the role of CERN and its neutrino platform, ii) the importance of ancillary neutrino cross-section experiments, and iii) the capability of fixed target experiments as well as present and future high energy colliders to search for the possible manifestations of neutrino mass generation mechanisms