Physics Letters B 797 (2019) 134827
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Implementing the inverse type-II seesaw mechanism into the 3-3-1
model
Carlos Antônio de Sousa Pires
a,∗
, Felipe Ferreira de Freitas
b
, Jing Shu
b,c,d,e
, Li Huang
b,c,f
,
Pablo Wagner Vasconcelos Olegário
a
a
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Caixa Postal 5008, 58051-970, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
b
CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
c
School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
d
CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics, Beijing 100049, China
e
Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
f
Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
28 May 2019
Received
in revised form 10 July 2019
Accepted
29 July 2019
Available
online 7 August 2019
Editor:
A. Ringwald
After the LHC is turning on and accumulating more data low scale seesaw mechanisms for small neutrino
masses with signature manifesting at TeV scale are gaining more and more attention once they provide
neutrino masses at sub-eV scale and can be probed at the LHC. In this regard inverse seesaw mechanism
arises as an interesting candidate for performing such proposal. This mechanism is a kind of counterpart
of canonical mechanism which requires lepton number be violated explicitly at high energy scale while
the inverse one requires the contrary, that lepton number be violated explicitly at low energy scale.
There are three ways of performing canonical seesaw mechanism. For each one of it there is its inverse
counterpart. Here we restrict our investigation to the study of the inverse type II seesaw mechanism.
Our main goal is to implement the mechanism into the 3-3-1 model with right-handed neutrinos,
but first we revisit the main ideas and consequences of the inverse type I and II seesaw mechanisms
when incorporated into the standard model. In regard to the 3-3-1 model, as interesting result, we
show that the mechanism may provide small masses to both the standard neutrinos as well as to
the right-handed ones. As phenomenological aspect, its best signature are the doubly charged scalars
which are sextet by the 3-3-1 symmetry. We investigate their production at the LHC through the process
σ (p p → Z
∗
, γ
∗
, Z
→
++
−−
) and their signal through four leptons final state decay channel.
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1. Introduction
The end of second phase of the LHC and the future plans for
the high luminosity LHC brings new encouraging perspectives for
the theoretical physics community. These new perspectives usher
the development of a plethora of models beyond Standard Model
(BSM), each one with its particular signature and phenomenolog-
ical
implication. An important class of BSM models are those that
incorporate seesaw mechanisms for small neutrino masses whose
signature may be probed at current and future energies at the LHC.
In this regard, inverse seesaw mechanisms are an interesting pro-
posal
of new physics since they are capable of generating neutrino
masses at sub-eV scale and provide a signature at TeV scale.
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Corresponding author.
E-mail
address: cpires@fisica.ufpb.br (C.A. de Sousa Pires).
The main supposition behind inverse seesaw mechanisms is
that lepton number be explicitly violated at low energy scale. They
can be implemented into the standard model in three different
ways. The most well known version consists in adding new neu-
trinos
in the singlet form to the particle content of the standard
model [1]. It is also possible to perform such mechanism with
triplet of scalars [2–5]or with triplet of fermions [6][7][8]. All
these three cases are realization of seesaw mechanisms at low en-
ergy
scale. However, as an analogy to the usual inverse seesaw
mechanism we extend the term inverse to the other two cases. In
this way, from now on we refer to the low energy type II seesaw
mechanism as inverse type II seesaw mechanism.
In
this work we revisit the main aspects of the inverse type I
and type II seesaw mechanisms and then embed the latter into the
structure of the 3-3-1 model with right-handed neutrinos [9–11]
and
explore their phenomenological consequences. As main as-
pects,
when implemented into the 3-3-1 model, the mechanism
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