Dark Energy and Right-Handed Neutrinos

We explore the possibility that a CP violating phase of the neutrino mass matrix is promoted to a pseudo-Goldstone-boson field and is identified as the quintessence field for Dark Energy. By requiring that the quintessence potential be calculable from a Lagrangian, and that the extreme flatness of t...

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Autores principales: Barbieri, Riccardo, Hall, Lawrence J., Oliver, Steven J., Strumia, Alessandro
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2005
Materias:
Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2005.08.075
http://cds.cern.ch/record/835584
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author Barbieri, Riccardo
Hall, Lawrence J.
Oliver, Steven J.
Strumia, Alessandro
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Hall, Lawrence J.
Oliver, Steven J.
Strumia, Alessandro
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description We explore the possibility that a CP violating phase of the neutrino mass matrix is promoted to a pseudo-Goldstone-boson field and is identified as the quintessence field for Dark Energy. By requiring that the quintessence potential be calculable from a Lagrangian, and that the extreme flatness of the potential be stable under radiative corrections, we are led to an essentially unique model. Lepton number is violated only by Majorana masses of light, right-handed neutrinos, comparable to the Dirac masses that mix right- with left-handed neutrinos. We outline the rich and constrained neutrino phenomenology that results from this proposal.
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spelling cern-8355842023-03-14T20:21:39Zdoi:10.1016/j.physletb.2005.08.075http://cds.cern.ch/record/835584engBarbieri, RiccardoHall, Lawrence J.Oliver, Steven J.Strumia, AlessandroDark Energy and Right-Handed NeutrinosParticle Physics - PhenomenologyWe explore the possibility that a CP violating phase of the neutrino mass matrix is promoted to a pseudo-Goldstone-boson field and is identified as the quintessence field for Dark Energy. By requiring that the quintessence potential be calculable from a Lagrangian, and that the extreme flatness of the potential be stable under radiative corrections, we are led to an essentially unique model. Lepton number is violated only by Majorana masses of light, right-handed neutrinos, comparable to the Dirac masses that mix right- with left-handed neutrinos. We outline the rich and constrained neutrino phenomenology that results from this proposal.We explore the possibility that a CP violating phase of the neutrino mass matrix is promoted to a pseudo-Goldstone-boson field and is identified as the quintessence field for Dark Energy. By requiring that the quintessence potential be calculable from a Lagrangian, and that the extreme flatness of the potential be stable under radiative corrections, we are led to an essentially unique model. Lepton number is violated only by Majorana masses of light, right-handed neutrinos, comparable to the Dirac masses that mix right- with left-handed neutrinos. We outline the rich and constrained neutrino phenomenology that results from this proposal.We explore the possibility that a CP violating phase of the neutrino mass matrix is promoted to a pseudo-Goldstone-boson field and is identified as the quintessence field for Dark Energy. By requiring that the quintessence potential be calculable from a Lagrangian, and that the extreme flatness of the potential be stable under radiative corrections, we are led to an essentially unique model. Lepton number is violated only by Majorana masses of light right-handed neutrinos, comparable to the Dirac masses that mix right- with left-handed neutrinos. We outline the rich and constrained neutrino phenomenology that results from this proposal.hep-ph/0505124CERN-PH-TH-2005-080IFUP-TH-2005-12UCB-PTH-05-15LBNL-57568CERN-PH-TH-2005-080IFUP-TH-2005-12LBNL-57568UCB-PTH-2005-15oai:cds.cern.ch:8355842005-05-13
spellingShingle Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Barbieri, Riccardo
Hall, Lawrence J.
Oliver, Steven J.
Strumia, Alessandro
Dark Energy and Right-Handed Neutrinos
title Dark Energy and Right-Handed Neutrinos
title_full Dark Energy and Right-Handed Neutrinos
title_fullStr Dark Energy and Right-Handed Neutrinos
title_full_unstemmed Dark Energy and Right-Handed Neutrinos
title_short Dark Energy and Right-Handed Neutrinos
title_sort dark energy and right-handed neutrinos
topic Particle Physics - Phenomenology
url https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2005.08.075
http://cds.cern.ch/record/835584
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