Author:
Bansal S.,Paz G.,Petrov A. A.,Tammaro M.,Zupan J.
Abstract
AbstractWe point out that neutrinos can have enhanced couplings to photons, if light (pseudo)scalar mediators are present, resulting in a potentially measurable neutrino polarizability. We show that the expected suppression from small neutrino masses can be compensated by the light mediator mass, generating dimension 7 Rayleigh operators at low scales. We explore the rich phenomenology of such models, computing in detail the constraints on the viable parameter space, spanned by the couplings of the mediator to neutrinos and photons. Finally, we build several explicit models that lead to an enhanced neutrino polarizability by modifying the inverse see-saw majoron, i.e., the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson of the U(1)Lglobal lepton number responsible for generating small neutrino masses.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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