Neutrino Masses and Phenomenology in Nnaturalness

TL;DR

This paper explores how Nnaturalness models can suppress neutrino masses through multiple sectors, analyzing the resulting neutrino mixing, mass eigenstates, and potential experimental signals.

Contribution

It demonstrates the neutrino mass suppression mechanism in Nnaturalness models and investigates the phenomenology of the resulting neutrino mass spectrum and experimental signatures.

Findings

Democratic sector couplings are ruled out by neutrino mass observations.

Deviations in sector couplings lead to a tower of neutrino mass eigenstates.

Unique signals in oscillation, mass measurements, and double beta decay are identified.

Abstract

In this paper, it is shown that $N$naturalness scenarios share the intrinsic mechanism to suppress neutrino masses with other infrared neutrino mass models. In such models like extra-dimensional theories or many species theories, the large number of mixing partners is responsible for the neutrino mass suppression. It is shown how neutrino mass matrices arise in $N$naturalness models and the resulting neutrino mixing is analyzed. The first result is that a totally democratic coupling among the different sectors like in the original models is already ruled out by the fact that neutrinos are not massless. In the case where the sector couplings deviate from the intersector ones a tower of additional neutrino mass eigenstates appears whose difference between the squared masses, $\Delta m_{ij}^2$, is determined fully by the theory. The resulting phenomenology of such a tower is investigated and the unique signals in neutrino oscillation experiments, neutrino mass measurements, and neutrinoless double beta decay experiments are discussed. This opens the door for terrestrial tests of $N$naturalness whose phenomenology was so far focused on Cosmology.