Neutrinos, Axions and Conformal Symmetry

Meissner, Krzysztof A.; Nicolai, Hermann

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0760-x

Neutrinos, Axions and Conformal Symmetry

Mar, 2008

4 pages

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Eur.Phys.J.C 57 (2008) 493-498

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0803.2814 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0760-x

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We demonstrate that radiative breaking of conformal symmetry (and simultaneously electroweak symmetry) in the Standard Model with right-chiral neutrinos and a minimally enlarged scalar sector induces spontaneous breaking of lepton number symmetry, which naturally gives rise to an axion-like particle with some unusual features. The couplings of this `axion' to Standard Model particles, in particular photons and gluons, are entirely determined (and computable) via the conformal anomaly, and their smallness turns out to be directly related to the smallness of the masses of light neutrinos.

gauge field theory: SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1)
neutrino: chiral
symmetry breaking: conformal
lepton number: violation
symmetry breaking
photon axion: coupling
axion gluon: coupling
anomaly: conformal
neutrino: propagator
effective potential

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