Light scalars from triplet Higgs fields: neutrinos, cosmology, and colliders

author: Ulrich Nierste
published: Oct. 12, 2021,   recorded: September 2021,   views: 0

Related content

Report a problem or upload files

If you have found a problem with this lecture or would like to send us extra material, articles, exercises, etc., please use our ticket system to describe your request and upload the data.
Enter your e-mail into the 'Cc' field, and we will keep you updated with your request's status.
Lecture popularity: You need to login to cast your vote.
  Delicious Bibliography

Description

SU(2) triplet Higgs fields coupling to leptons are a means to generate Majorana masses for neutrinos. A priori the neutral scalar and pseudoscalar components S and A could be light, as e.g. realised in majoron models in which A is the Goldstone boson of spontaneously broken lepton number. Such a light particle mediating a new force between neutrinos can alleviate cosmological puzzles such as the scalar-to-tensor ratio in the cosmic microwave background and the different values of the Hubble constant observed at different cosmological scales. While all renormalisable triplet models do not permit to have either A or S light with the other neutral particle heavy enough to forbid Z→AS as required by LEP data, I show that one can circumvent this roadblock with dimension-6 terms in the Higgs potential. If A or S are light, the singly (doubly) charged triplet Higgs boson is lighter than 280 GeV (400 GeV), which make the model falsifiable with better LHC data.

Link this page

Would you like to put a link to this lecture on your homepage?
Go ahead! Copy the HTML snippet !

Write your own review or comment:

make sure you have javascript enabled or clear this field: