One-loop Matching of the Type-II Seesaw Model onto the Standard Model Effective Field Theory

TL;DR

This paper performs a detailed one-loop matching of the type-II seesaw model onto the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, deriving 41 dimension-six operators and their coefficients, and validating the EFT through rare lepton decay calculations.

Contribution

It provides the first complete one-loop matching of the type-II seesaw model onto SMEFT, including all relevant dimension-six operators and their Wilson coefficients.

Findings

Derived 41 dimension-six operators in SMEFT from the type-II seesaw model.

Calculated Wilson coefficients up to order 1/M_Δ^2 for these operators.

Validated the EFT by comparing rare lepton decay predictions with the full theory.

Abstract

In this paper, we continue to construct the low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) of the canonical seesaw models, which are natural extensions of the Standard Model (SM) to accommodate tiny but nonzero neutrino masses. Different from three right-handed neutrino singlets in the type-I seesaw model, the Higgs triplet in the type-II seesaw model participates directly in the electroweak gauge interactions, rendering the EFT construction more challenging. By integrating out the heavy Higgs triplet in the functional-integral formalism, we carry out a complete one-loop matching of the type-II seesaw model onto the so-called Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). It turns out that 41 dimension-six operators (barring flavor structures and Hermitian conjugates) in the Warsaw basis of the SMEFT can be obtained, covering all those 31 dimension-six operators in the case of type-I seesaw model. The Wilson coefficients for 41 dimension-six operators are computed up to $\mathcal{O}\left( M^{-2}_\Delta \right)$ with $M^{}_\Delta$ being the mass scale of the Higgs triplet. Moreover, the branching ratios of rare radiative decays of charged leptons $l^-_\alpha \to l^-_\beta + \gamma$ are calculated in the EFT and compared with that in the full theory in order to demonstrate the practical application and the correctness of our EFT construction.