Light active and sterile neutrinos from compositeness

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Yuval Grossman

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Abstract

Neutrinos can have naturally small Dirac masses if the Standard Model singlet right-handed neutrinos are light composite fermions. Theories which produce light composite fermions typically generate many of them, three of which can marry the left-handed neutrinos with small Dirac masses. The rest can serve as sterile states which can mix with the Standard Model neutrinos. We present explicit models illustrating this idea.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)179-182
Number of pages4
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume459
Issue number1-3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Research supported by the Department of Energy under contract DE-AC03-76SF00515.

Funding

Research supported by the Department of Energy under contract DE-AC03-76SF00515.

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-AC03-76SF00515

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