https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1414-3
TeV-scale seesaw from a multi-Higgs model
Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan
Received:
21
May
2010
Revised:
18
June
2010
Published online:
28
August
2010
We suggest new simple model of generating tiny neutrino masses through a TeV-scale seesaw mechanism without requiring tiny Yukawa couplings. This model is a simple extension of the standard model by introducing extra one Higgs singlet, and one Higgs doublet with a tiny vacuum expectation value. Experimental constraints, electroweak precision data and no large flavor changing neutral currents, are satisfied since the extra doublet only has a Yukawa interaction with lepton doublets and right-handed neutrinos, and their masses are heavy of order a TeV-scale. Since active light neutrinos are Majorana particles, this model predicts a neutrinoless double beta decay.
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