Ultraviolet Completion of a Two-loop Neutrino Mass Model

TL;DR

This paper presents a UV-complete $SU(5)$ model embedding the two-loop neutrino mass generation mechanism, predicting new particles accessible at colliders and potential signals in proton decay experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a UV completion of the Zee-Babu model within an $SU(5)$ framework, including colored scalars and a TeV-scale vector-like quark, consistent with unification and neutrino data.

Findings

Colored scalars contribute significantly to neutrino masses.

Model predicts observable proton decay signals in Hyper-Kamiokande.

New particles may be detected at future colliders.

Abstract

The Zee-Babu model is an economical framework for neutrino mass generation as two-loop quantum corrections. In this work, we present a UV completion of this model by embedding it into an $SU(5)$ unified framework. Interestingly, we find that loop-induced contributions to neutrino masses arising from colored scalars are just as important as those from color-neutral ones. These new states, which are required from gauge coupling unification and neutrino oscillation data to have masses below $\mathcal{O}(10^3)$ TeV, may be accessible to future collider experiments. Additionally, the model can be probed in proton decay searches. Our Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis of model parameters shows a high likelihood of observable $p \rightarrow e^+ \pi^0$ decay signal in the first decade of Hyper-Kamiokande operation. The model predicts a vector-like down-type quark at the TeV scale, utilized for realistic fermion mass generation and gauge coupling unification. The model is UV-complete in the sense that it is a unified theory which is realistic and asymptotically free that can be extrapolated to the Planck scale.