One-loop neutrino mass model with $SU(2)_L$ multiplet fields
Takaaki Nomura, Hiroshi Okada

TL;DR
This paper introduces a one-loop neutrino mass model involving $SU(2)_L$ multiplet fields, achieving neutrino mass generation through scalar and fermion interactions with potential dark matter candidates.
Contribution
It presents a simplified one-loop neutrino mass model with $SU(2)_L$ multiplets, analyzing its phenomenology and experimental constraints.
Findings
Model achieves neutrino masses via scalar-fermion loops.
Identifies parameter space compatible with neutrino oscillation data.
Discusses potential detection of new charged particles at colliders.
Abstract
We propose a one-loop neutrino mass model with several multiplet fermions and scalar fields in which the inert feature of a scalar to realize the one-loop neutrino mass can be achieved by the cancellation among Higgs couplings thanks to non-trivial terms in the Higgs potential and to present it in a simpler way. Then we discuss our typical cut-off scale by computing renormalization group equation for gauge coupling, lepton flavor violations, muon anomalous magnetic moment, possibility of dark matter candidate, neutrino mass matrix satisfying the neutrino oscillation data. Finally, we search for our allowed parameter region to satisfy all the constraints, and discuss a possibility of detecting new charged particles at the large hadron collider.
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KIAS-P18115, APCTP Pre2018 - 017
A one-loop neutrino mass model with multiplet fields
Takaaki Nomura
School of Physics, KIAS, Seoul 02455, Republic of Korea
Hiroshi Okada
Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 790-784, Republic of Korea
Abstract
We propose a one-loop neutrino mass model with several multiplet fermions and scalar fields in which the inert feature of a scalar to realize the one-loop neutrino mass can be achieved by the cancellation among Higgs couplings thanks to non-trivial terms in the Higgs potential and to present it in a simpler way. Then we discuss our typical cut-off scale by computing renormalization group equation for gauge coupling, lepton flavor violations, muon anomalous magnetic moment, possibility of dark matter candidate, neutrino mass matrix satisfying the neutrino oscillation data. Finally, we search for our allowed parameter region to satisfy all the constraints, and discuss a possibility of detecting new charged particles at the large hadron collider.
I Introductions
Radiatively induced neutrino mass models are one of the promising candidates to realize tiny neutrino masses with natural parameter spaces at TeV scale and to provide a dark matter (DM) candidate, both of which cannot be explained within the standard model (SM). In order to build such a radiative model, an inert scalar boson plays an important role and its inert feature can frequently be realized by imposing additional symmetry such as symmetry Ma:2006km ; Krauss:2002px ; Aoki:2008av ; Gustafsson:2012vj and/or symmetry Okada:2012np ; Kajiyama:2013zla ; Kajiyama:2013rla , which also play an role in stabilizing the DM. On the other hand, once we introduce large multiplet fields such as quartet Nomura:2018ktz ; Nomura:2018ibs , quintet Nomura:2018lsx ; Nomura:2018cle , septet fields Nomura:2018cfu ; Nomura:2017abu ; Nomura:2016jnl , we sometimes can evade imposing additional symmetries Anamiati:2018cuq ; Cirelli:2005uq . Then, the stability originates from a remnant symmetry after the spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking due to the largeness of these multiplets. In addition, the cut-off scale of a model is determined by the renormalization group equations (RGEs) of gauge coupling, and it implies that a theory can be within TeV scale, depending on the number of multiplet fields. Thus a good testability could be provided in such a scenario.
Then, using large multiplet fields, we would like to realize one-loop neutrino generation by inert scalar field without imposing additional symmetry such as . In this case scalar quintet is minimal choice for inert multiplet since scalar multiplet smaller than quintet easily develop a vacuum expectation value (VEV) by renormalizable interaction with SM Higgs field like for the quadruplet . In addition we need quadruplet fermion to interact with the SM lepton doublet and septet scalar is also required to get Majorana mass term from by its VEV (Higgs triplet is also possible but it allows type-II seesaw mechanism Magg:1980ut ; Konetschny:1977bn ). We find that scalar quadruplet is needed to realize vacuum configuration in which the VEV of to be zero; in addition we can avoid dangerous massless Goldstone boson from scalar multiplets by non-trivial terms with these multiplets. Although number of exotic fields is smaller in other one-loop neutrino mass models like scotogenic model Ma:2006km they usually require additional discrete symmetry such as . We show the realization of one-loop neutrino mass without additional symmetry which result in introduction of several exotic multiplets.
In this letter, we introduce several multiplet fermions and scalar fields under the gauge symmetry. As a direct consequence of multiplet fields, our cut-off scale is of the order 10 PeV that could be tested by current or future experiments. In our model we do not impose additional symmetry and search for possible solution to obtain inert condition for generating neutrino mass at loop level. Then required inert feature can be realized not via a remnant symmetry but via cancellations among couplings in our scalar potential thanks to several non-trivial couplings Okada:2015bxa . In such a case, generally DM could decay into the SM particles, but we can control some parameters so that we can evade its too short lifetime without requiring too small couplings. Therefore our DM is long-lived particle which represents clear difference from the scenario where the stability of DM is due to an additional or remnant symmetry. We also discuss lepton flavor violations (LFVs), and anomalous magnetic moment (muon ), and search for allowed parameter region to satisfy all the constraints such as neutrino oscillation data, LFVs, DM relic density, and demonstrate the possibility of detecting new charged particles at the large hadron collider (LHC).
This letter is organized as follows. In Sec. II, we review our model and formulate the Higgs sector, neutral fermion sector including active neutrinos. Then we discuss the RGE of the gauge coupling, LFVs, muon , and our DM candidate. In Sec. III, we explore the allowed region to satisfy all the constraints, and discuss production of our new fields (especially charged bosons) at he LHC. In Sec. IV, we devote the summary of our results and the conclusion.
II Model setup and Constraints
In this section we formulate our model. As for the fermion sector, we introduce three families of vector-like fermions with charge under the gauge symmetry. As for the scalar sector, we respectively add an quartet (), quintet (), and septet () complex scalar fields with charge under the gauge symmetry in addition to the SM-like Higgs that is denoted by , where the quintet is expected to be an inert scalar field. Here we write the nonzero vacuum expectation values (VEVs) of , , and by , and , respectively, which induces the spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking. All the field contents and their assignments are summarized in Table 1, where the quark sector is exactly the same as the SM. The renormalizable Yukawa Lagrangian under these symmetries is given by
[TABLE]
where index is omitted assuming it is contracted to be gauge invariant inside bracket [], upper indices - are the number of families, and and either of or are assumed to be diagonal matrix with real parameters without loss of generality. Here, we assume and to be diagonal for simplicity. The mass matrix of charged-lepton is defined by . Here we assign lepton number to so that the source of lepton number violation is only the terms with coupling and in the Lagrangian requiring the lepton number is conserved at high scale.
II.1 Scalar sector
Scalar potential and VEVs*: The scalar potential in our model is given by*
[TABLE]
where is the trivial quartic terms containing . From the conditions of and , we find the following relation:
[TABLE]
Then, the stable conditions to the and lead to the following equations:
[TABLE]
where we have ignored contributions from terms in assuming corresponding couplings are negligibly small; we can always find a solution satisfying the inert condition including such terms. Solving Eqs.(3) and (4), one rewrites VEVs and one parameter in terms of the other parameters. In addition to the above conditions, we also need to consider the constraint from parameter, which is given by the following relation at tree level:
[TABLE]
where the experimental values is given by at 2 confidential level pdg . Then, we have, e.g., the solutions of GeV, where GeV2.
II.2 Neutral fermion masses
Heavier neutral sector*: After the spontaneously electroweak symmetry breaking, extra neutral fermion mass matrix in basis of is given by*
[TABLE]
where and . Since we can suppose hierarchy of mass parameters to be , the mixing is expected to be maximal. Thus, we formulate the eigenstates in terms of the flavor eigenstate as follows:
[TABLE]
where and represent the mass eigenstates, and their masses are respectively given by (a=1-3) (b=4-6).
Active neutrino sector* : In our scenario, active neutrino mass is induced at one-loop level, where and propagate inside a loop diagram as in Fig. 1, and the masses of real and imaginary part of electrically neutral component of are respectively denoted by and . As a result the active neutrino mass matrix is obtained such that*
[TABLE]
where . Neutrino mass eigenvalues () are given by , where is the MNS matrix. Once we define , one can rewrite in terms of the other parameters Casas:2001sr ; Chiang:2017tai as follows:
[TABLE]
where is a three by six arbitrary matrix, satisfying , and is imposed not to exceed the perturbative limit.
II.3 Analysis of other phenomenological formulas
Beta function of gauge coupling :*
Here we estimate the running of gauge coupling of in the presence of several new multiplet fields of . The new contribution to from fermions (with three families) and bosons are respectively given by Nomura:2017abu ; Kanemura:2015bli *
[TABLE]
*Then one finds that the resulting flow of is then given by the Fig. 2. This figure shows that the red line is relevant up to the mass scale PeV in case of **0.5 TeV, while the blue line is relevant up to the mass scale PeV in case of *5 TeV.
Lepton flavor violations(LFVs):* LFV decays arise from the term associated with coupling at one-loop level, and its form can be given by Lindner:2016bgg ; Baek:2016kud *
[TABLE]
where
[TABLE]
and
[TABLE]
where .
New contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment* (muon : ) : We obtain from the same diagrams for LFVs and it can be formulated by the following expression *
[TABLE]
where has been applied. In Eq. (14), one finds that the first term and the last two terms provide positive contributions, while the other terms do the negative contributions. When mediated masses are same value for all the modes; , one simplifies the formula of as
[TABLE]
Thus one would have positive contribution to the muon , and we use the allowed range of in our numerical analysis below.
Charged scalar contribution to decay*: Interactions among SM Higgs field and large multiplet scalars affect the branching ratio of process via charged scalar loop. Here we write the relevant interactions such that*
[TABLE]
where provide sum of charged scalar bilinear terms. Then we obtain decay width of at one-loop level as Gunion:1989we
[TABLE]
where indicates components in the multiplet and is its electric charge, and . The loop functions are given by
[TABLE]
where is assumed and subscript of correspond to spin of particle in loop diagram. We then estimate assuming Higgs production cross section is the same as in the SM. In Fig. 3, we show the as a function of function of assuming they are same value for and masses of corresponding multiplets are TeV. The value of is constrained by the current LHC data ATLAS:2018doi ; Sirunyan:2018koj and we indicate region in the plot. We thus find that is required to be less than around for TeV scale scalar masses.
Dark matter candidate*: In our case, the lightest neutral fermion among can be a DM candidate, which comes from quintet field with charge under . Here we firstly require that higher-dimensional operator inducing decay of the DM is not induced by the physics above cut-off scale so that decay of DM can only be induced via renormalizable Lagrangian in the model. Assuming the dominant contribution to explain the relic density originates from gauge interactions in the kinetic terms, the typical mass range is TeV where TeV is estimated by perturbative calculation Cirelli:2005uq and heavier mass is required including non-perturbative Sommerfeld enhancement effect Cirelli:2007xd . Then the typical order of spin independent cross section for DM-nucleon scattering via Z-portal is at around cm2 Cirelli:2005uq for TeV, which marginally satisfies the current experimental data of direct detection searches such as LUX Akerib:2016vxi , XENON1T Aprile:2017iyp , and PandaX-II Cui:2017nnn ; the direct detection constraint is weaker for heavier DM mass. In the numerical analysis, below, we fix the DM mass to be 2.4 TeV as a reference value for simplicity. One feature of our model is possible instability of DM since we do not impose additional symmetry at TeV scale. We thus have to estimate the decay of DM so that the life time does not exceed the age of universe that is around second. The main decay channel arises from interactions associated with couplings and , when we neglect the effect of mixing among neutral bosons. Then the three body decay ratio of via the neutral component of is given by*
[TABLE]
where we assume the final states to be massless, , is the mass of DM, and is the SM Higgs. In the numerical analysis, we will estimate the lifetime and show the allowed region, where we take the maximum value of . 111In case where the neutral component of is DM candidate, decays into SM-like Higgs pairs via , and its decay rate is given by . Then the required lower bound of is of the order so that its lifetime is longer than the age of Universe, where DM is estimated as 5 TeV Cirelli:2005uq .
III Numerical analysis and phenomenology
Here we carry out numerical analysis to discuss consistency of our model under the constraints discussed in previous section. Then we discuss collider physics focusing on charged scalar bosons in the model.
Numerical analyses*: In our numerical analysis, we assume all the mass of to be the mass of DM; 2.4 TeV, and all the component of except to be degenerate, where . These assumptions are reasonable in the aspect of oblique parameters in the multiplet fields pdg . Also we fix to be the following values so as to maximize the muon :*
[TABLE]
where are arbitral mixing matrix with complex values that are introduced in the neutrino sector Nomura:2018lsx ; Chiang:2017tai . Notice here that we also impose not to exceed the perturbative limit.
Fig. 4 represents various LFV processes and in terms of , where , , , and are respectively colored by red, magenta, blue, and black. The black horizontal line shows the current upper limit of the experiment Cai:2017jrq ; TheMEG:2016wtm , while the green one does the future upper limit of the experiment Cai:2017jrq ; Baldini:2013ke . Considering these bounds of , one finds that the current allowed mass range of 4-20 TeV can be tested in the near future. Here the upper bounds of and are of the order , which is safe for all the range. The maximum value of is about , which is smaller than the experimental value by three order of magnitude.
Fig. 5 shows the lifetime of DM in terms of , where we fix GeV, and with (red, green, blue). The black horizontal line shows the current age of Universe. The figure demonstrates as follows:
[TABLE]
Collider Physics*: Here let us briefly comments possible collider physics of our model. We have many new charged particles from multiplet scalars and fermions. Clear signal could be obtained from charged scalar bosons in and , since they can decay into final states containing only SM particles where the components in these multiplets are given by*
[TABLE]
The quadruply charged scalar is particularly interesting since it is specific in our model and would provide sizable production cross section. We thus focus on signal in our model 222Collider phenomenology of charged scalars from quartet is discussed in refs. delAguila:2013yaa ; delAguila:2013mia ; Nomura:2017abu ; Chala:2018ari .. The quadruply charged scalar can be pair produced by Drell-Yan(DY) process, , and by photon fusion(PF) process Babu:2016rcr ; Ghosh:2017jbw ; Ghosh:2018drw . We estimate the cross section using MADGRAPH/MADEVENT 5 Alwall:2014hca , where the necessary Feynman rules and relevant parameters of the model are implemented by use of FeynRules 2.0 Alloul:2013bka and the NNPDF23LO1 PDF Deans:2013mha is adopted. In Fig. 6 we show the cross section for the quadruply charged scalar production process at the LHC 14 TeV, where dashed line indicates the cross section from only Drell-Yan process and solid line corresponds to the cross section including both Drell-Yan and photon fusion processes. We thus find that the cross section is highly enhanced including PF process due to large electric charge of the scalar boson. Thus sizable number of pair can be produced at the LHC 14 TeV if its mass is TeV, with sufficiently large integrated luminosity. Produced mainly decays into via interactions in the scalar potential since components in have degenerate mass. Then decays into via term. We thus obtain multi boson signal from quadruply charged scalar boson production. Mass reconstruction from multi boson final state is not trivial and detailed analysis is beyond the scope of this paper.
In addition to the charged scalar bosons, we consider production of exotic charged fermions at the LHC. The quadruplet fermion is written by
[TABLE]
where the subscript indicates electric charge of components. As in the scalar sector, we focus on the component with the highest electric charge that is in the multiplet. Pair production of is estimated by MADGRAPH/MADEVENT 5 as in the charged scalar case where we consider both DY- and PF-processes. The production cross section is shown In Fig. 7 where the dashed and solid lines correspond to values from only DY process and from sum of both processes as in the scalar case. We obtain cross section fb for TeV which is motivated by DM relic density. In that case we can obtain events for integrated luminosity of fb. Charged fermions in decay as where indicates electric charge and boson is off-shell since the mass differences between components are radiatively induced and its value is around 350 MeV Cirelli:2005uq ; exotic fermions cannot decay via coupling since is heavier than . Thus production gives signature of light mesons with missing transverse momentum through decay chain of where is DM. Furthermore we would have displaced vertex signature since decay length of charged fermions is long as cm Cirelli:2005uq for quadruplet fermion. Therefore analysis of displaced vertex will be important to test our scenario.
IV Summary and discussions
We have proposed an one-loop neutrino mass model, introducing large multiplet fields under . The inert boson is achieved by nontrivial cancellations among quadratic terms. We have also considered the RGE for , the LFVs, muon , and fermionic DM candidate, and shown allowed region to satisfy all the constraints as we have discussed above. RGE of determines our cut-off energy that does makes our theory stay within the order PeV scale, therefore our model could totally be tested by current or near future experiments. Due to the multiplet fields, we have positive value of muon , but find its maximum value to be of the order that is smaller than the sizable value by three order of magnitude. For the LFVs, the most promising mode to be tested in the current and future experiments is at the range of 3.2 TeV 11 TeV. We have also discussed possible decay mode of our DM candidate and some parameters are constrained requiring DM to be stable on cosmological time scale. Notice that the decay of DM is one feature of our model and we would discriminate our model from models with absolutely stable DM by searching for signal of the DM decay. Finally, we have analyzed the collider physics, focussing on multi-charged scalar bosons and , and triply charged fermion in exotic fermion sector. For scalar sector, we find that sizable production cross section for quadruply charged scalar pair can be obtained adding the photon fusion process that is enhanced by large electric charge of . Then possible signal of comes from decay chain of which would provide multi-lepton plus jets at the detector. We expect sizable number of events with sufficiently large integrated luminosity to detect them at the LHC 14 TeV where the detailed analysis of the signal and background is left in future works. For exotic fermion sector, we have also find sizable production cross section for triply charged fermion pair. The triply charged fermion decay gives signature of light mesons with missing transverse momentum through decay chain of where is DM. In addition, would have displaced vertex signature since decay length of charged fermions is long as cm for components in quadruplet fermion, and thus analysis of displaced vertex will be important to test our scenario.
Acknowledgments
This research is supported by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Gyeongsangbuk-do and Pohang City (H.O.). H. O. is sincerely grateful for KIAS and all the members.
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