Low Scale Left-Right Symmetry and Naturally Small Neutrino Mass

TL;DR

This paper explores a low-scale left-right symmetric model with inverse seesaw mechanism, producing small neutrino masses, heavy fermions, and potential collider signatures, while addressing dark matter and baryogenesis.

Contribution

It introduces a novel low-scale left-right symmetric model with inverse seesaw, linking neutrino masses, collider phenomenology, dark matter, and baryogenesis in a unified framework.

Findings

Heavy fermions in the 1 GeV - 100 TeV range could be detected at colliders.

Neutrinoless double beta decay contributions are negligible.

The model accommodates keV-scale dark matter candidates.

Abstract

We consider the low scale ($10$ - $100$ TeV) left-right symmetric model with "naturally" small neutrino masses generated through the inverse seesaw mechanism. The Dirac neutrino mass terms are taken to be similar to the masses of charged leptons and quarks in order to satisfy the quark-lepton similarity condition. The inverse seesaw implies the existence of fermion singlets $S$ with Majorana mass terms as well as the "left" and "right" Higgs doublets. These doublets provide the portal for $S$ and break the left-right symmetry. The inverse seesaw allows to realize a scenario in which the large lepton mixing originates from the Majorana mass matrix of $S$ fields which has certain symmetry. The model contains heavy pseudo-Dirac fermions, formed by $S$ and the right-handed neutrinos, which have masses in the $1$ GeV - $100$ TeV range and can be searched for at current and future colliders such as LHC and FCC-ee as well as in SHiP and DUNE experiments. Their contribution to neutrinoless double beta decay is unobservable. The radiative corrections to the mass of the Higgs boson and the possibility for generating the baryon asymmetry of the Universe are discussed. Modification of the model with two singlets ($S_L$ and $S_R$) per generation can provide a viable keV-scale dark matter candidate.