Neutrino mass and mu -> e plus gamma from a mini-seesaw

作者:Duerr Michael*; George Damien P; McDonald Kristian L
来源:The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011, (7): 103.
DOI:10.1007/JHEP07(2011)103

摘要

The recently proposed "mini-seesaw mechanism" combines naturally suppressed Dirac and Majorana masses to achieve light Standard Model neutrinos via a low-scale seesaw. A key feature of this approach is the presence of multiple light (order GeV) sterile-neutrinos that mix with the Standard Model. In this work we study the bounds on these light sterile-neutrinos from processes like mu -> e + gamma, invisible Z-decays, and neutrinoless double beta-decay. We show that viable parameter space exists and that, interestingly, key observables can lie just below current experimental sensitivities. In particular, a motivated region of parameter space predicts a mu -> e + gamma branching fraction within the range to be probed by MEG.

  • 出版日期2011-7