Phys. Rev. D 72, 015001 (2005) [7 pages]

Sterile neutrinos and global symmetries

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J. Sayre, S. Wiesenfeldt, and S. Willenbrock
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

Received 21 April 2005; published 1 July 2005

We use an effective-field-theory approach to construct models with naturally light sterile neutrinos, due to either exact or accidental global symmetries. The most attractive models we find are based on gauge symmetries, either discrete or continuous. We give examples of simple models based on ZN, U(1), and SU(2).


©2005 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.015001
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.015001
PACS: 14.60.St, 11.30.Fs

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