Neutrino charge radius and electromagnetic dipole moments via scalar and vector leptoquarks

A. Bolaños-Carrera; M. Guiot-Lomelí; G. Tavares-Velasco

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12495-1

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Particles and Fields

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Eur. Phys. J. C (2024) 84: 217
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12495-1

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Neutrino charge radius and electromagnetic dipole moments via scalar and vector leptoquarks

A. Bolaños-Carrera¹, M. Guiot-Lomelí² and G. Tavares-Velasco²^c

¹ Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, CP 64849, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
² Facultad de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, CP 72570, Puebla, Pue., Mexico

^c gtv@fcfm.buap.mx

Received: 2 October 2023
Accepted: 29 January 2024
Published online: 1 March 2024

Abstract

The one-loop contribution of scalar and vector leptoquarks (LQs) to the electromagnetic properties (NEPs) of massive Dirac neutrinos is presented via an effective Lagrangian approach. For the contribution of gauge LQs to the effective neutrino charge radius defined in Bernabeu et al. (Phys Rev Lett 89:101802, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.101802 [Erratum: Phys Rev Lett 89:229902 (2002)]), we considered a Yang–Mills scenario and used the background field method for the calculation. Analytical results for nonzero neutrino mass are presented, which can be useful to obtain the NEPs of heavy neutrinos, out of which approximate expressions are obtained for light neutrinos. For the numerical analysis we concentrate on the only renormalizable scalar and vector LQ representations that do not need extra symmetries to forbid tree-level proton decay. Constraints on the parameter space consistent with current experimental data are then discussed and it is found that the scalar ${\tilde{R}}_{2}$ ${\widetilde{R}}_2$ and the vector $U_{1}$ $$U_1$$ representations could yield the largest LQ contributions to the NEPs: for LQ couplings to both left- and right handed neutrinos of the order of O(1) and a LQ mass of 1.5-2 TeV, the magnetic dipole moment (MDM) of a Dirac neutrino with a mass in the eV scale can be of the order of $10^{- 9}$ $10^{-9}$ – $10^{- 10}$ $10^{-10}$ $μ_{B}$ $\mu _B$ , whereas its neutrino electric dipole moment (EDM) can reach values as high as $10^{- 20}$ $10^{-20}$ – $10^{- 19}$ $10^{-19}$ ecm. On the other hand, the effective NCR can reach values up to $10^{- 35}$ $10^{-35}$ cm $^{2}$ $$^2$$ even if LQs do not couple to right-handed neutrinos, in which case the EDM vanishes and the contribution to the MDM would be negligible.

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