Sterile neutrinos, $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay and the W-boson mass anomaly in a Flipped $SU(5)$ from F-theory

TL;DR

This paper constructs a flipped $SU(5)$ model within F-theory, exploring its implications for neutrino physics, dark matter, and recent anomalies in the W-boson mass, with testable predictions for neutrinoless double beta decay.

Contribution

It presents a novel F-theory derived flipped $SU(5)$ model with specific flux choices, explaining neutrino masses, dark matter candidates, and potential resolutions to the W-boson mass anomaly.

Findings

TeV-scale $E^c+ar E^c$ pair could address $g_{bc}-2$ discrepancy.

Inverse seesaw mechanism produces a light neutrino state as dark matter candidate.

Model predicts neutrinoless double beta decay rates testable soon.

Abstract

We investigate the low energy properties of an effective local model with flipped $SU(5)\times U(1)_{\chi}$ gauge group, constructed within the framework of F-theory. Its origin is traced back to the $SO(10)$ symmetry -- associated with a geometric singularity of the compactification manifold -- broken by an internal flux which is turned on along the seven-brane in the $U(1)_{\chi}$ direction. Topological properties and the choice of flux parameters determine the massless spectrum of the model to be that of the minimal flipped $SU(5)$ supplemented with an extra right-handed electron-type state and its complex conjugate, $E^c+\bar E^c$, as well as neutral singlet fields. The subsequent symmetry breaking to the $SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)_Y$ gauge group occurs with a Higgs pair in $10+\overline{10}$ representations of $SU(5)$. Next we proceed to the phenomenological analysis of the resulting effective model and the salient outcomes are: The $E^c+\bar E^c$ pair acquires a mass of few TeV and as such could solve the $g_{\mu}-2$ discrepancy. Neutrino couplings to extra neutral singlets lead to an inverse seesaw mechanism where an extra light state could be a suitable dark matter candidate. The predictions of the model for the ${0\nu}\beta\beta$ decay rate could be tested in near future experiments. There are non-unitarity deviations from lepton mixing matrix ($U_{PMNS}$), which could in principle explain the new precision measurement of the W-boson mass recently reported by CDF II collaboration.