R-Parity Conserving Supersymmetric Extension of the Zee Model

TL;DR

This paper introduces a supersymmetric extension of the Zee model with R-parity conservation, capable of explaining neutrino oscillation data and predicting new scalar particles accessible at colliders.

Contribution

It presents a novel supersymmetric Zee model that incorporates nonholomorphic Yukawa interactions, aligning with experimental data and offering testable collider signatures.

Findings

Neutrino mass matrix consistent with oscillation data

Predicted light scalar bosons accessible at LHC and future colliders

Distinct decay patterns of charged scalars can test the model

Abstract

We extend the Zee model, where tiny neutrino masses are generated at the one loop level, to a supersymmetric model with R-parity conservation. It is found that the neutrino mass matrix can be consistent with the neutrino oscillation data thanks to the nonholomorphic Yukawa interaction generated via one-loop diagrams of sleptons. We find a parameter set of the model, where in addition to the neutrino oscillation data, experimental constraints from the lepton flavor violating decays of charged leptons and current LHC data are also satisfied. In the parameter set, an additional CP-even neutral Higgs boson other than the standard-model-like one, a CP-odd neutral Higgs boson, and two charged scalar bosons are light enough to be produced at the LHC and future lepton colliders. If the lightest charged scalar bosons are mainly composed of the SU(2)_L-singlet scalar boson in the model, they would decay into e nu and mu nu with 50% of a branching ratio for each. In such a case, the relation among the masses of the charged scalar bosons and the CP-odd Higgs in the minimal supersymmetric standard model approximately holds with a radiative correction. Our model can be tested by measuring the specific decay patterns of charged scalar bosons and the discriminative mass spectrum of additional scalar bosons.