Title

Possible Z-Width Probe of a "Brane-World" Scenario for Neutrino Masses

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Joseph Schechter, Syracuse UniversityFollow
Sherif Moussa, Syracuse UniversityFollow
Salah Nasri, Syracuse University
F Sannino, NORDITA Blegdamsvej 17Follow

Document Type

Article

Date

8-15-2011

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

The possibility that the accurately known value of the Z width might furnish information about the coupling of two neutrinos to the Majoron (Nambu-Goldstone boson of spontaneous lepton number violation) is proposed and investigated in detail. Both the "ordinary" case and the case in which one adopts a "brane" world picture with the Majoron free to travel in extra dimensions are studied. Bounds on the dimensionless coupling constants are obtained, allowing for any number of extra dimensions and any intrinsic mass scale. These bounds may be applied to a variety of different Majoron models. If a technically natural see-saw model is adopted, the predicted coupling constants are far below these upper bounds. In addition, for this natural model, the effect of extra dimensions is to decrease the predicted partial Z width, the increase due to many Kaluza-Klein excitations being compensated by the decrease of their common coupling constant.

Additional Information

RevTeX, 12 pages, 3 figures More information available at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0108128

Recommended Citation

Schechter, Joseph; Moussa, Sherif; Nasri, Salah; and Sannino, F, "Possible Z-Width Probe of a "Brane-World" Scenario for Neutrino Masses" (2011). Physics - All Scholarship. 286.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/286

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

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