The Singly-Charged Scalar Singlet as the Origin of Neutrino Masses

13 Jul 2021, 15:00
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talk Neutrino Physics Neutrinos

Speaker

Tobias Felkl (University of New South Wales)

Description

We consider the generation of neutrino masses via a singly-charged scalar singlet. Under general assumptions we identify two distinct structures for the neutrino mass matrix which are realised in several well-known radiative models. Either structure implies a constraint for the antisymmetric Yukawa coupling of the singly-charged scalar singlet to two left-handed lepton doublets, irrespective of how the breaking of lepton-number conservation is achieved. The constraint disfavours large hierarchies among the Yukawa couplings. We study the implications for the phenomenology of lepton-flavour non-universality, measurements of the $W$-boson mass, flavour violation in the charged-lepton sector and decays of the singly-charged scalar singlet. We also discuss the parameter space that can address the Cabibbo Angle Anomaly.

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Authors

Juan Herrero (IFIC, UV/CSIC) Michael Schmidt (UNSW Sydney) Tobias Felkl (University of New South Wales)

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