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| Author(s): |
Carvajal, C. D. R.
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Dias, A. G.
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Nishi, C. C.
;
Sanchez-Vega, B. L.
Total Authors: 4
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Journal of High Energy Physics; v. N/A, n. 5, p. 26-pg., 2015-05-13. |
| Abstract | |
Light pseudoscalars known as axion like particles (ALPs) may be behind physical phenomena like the Universe transparency to ultra-energetic photons, the soft gamma-ray excess from the Coma cluster, and the 3.5 keV line. We explore the connection of these particles with the inverse seesaw (ISS) mechanism for neutrino mass generation. We propose a very restrictive setting where the scalar field hosting the ALP is also responsible for generating the ISS mass scales through its vacuum expectation value on gravity induced nonrenormalizable operators. A discrete gauge symmetry protects the theory from the appearance of overly strong gravitational effects and discrete anomaly cancellation imposes strong constraints on the order of the group. The anomalous U(1) symmetry leading to the ALP is an extended lepton number and the protective discrete symmetry can be always chosen as a subgroup of a combination of the lepton number and the baryon number. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/26371-5 - Flavor symmetries at the electroweak scale and their consequences |
| Grantee: | Celso Chikahiro Nishi |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/22079-8 - Physics of particles and fields: standard model and its extensions |
| Grantee: | Adriano Antonio Natale |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |