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arxiv: 1411.5042 · v2 · pith:AH4LBILYnew · submitted 2014-11-18 · ✦ hep-ph

Dirac or Inverse Seesaw Neutrino Masses with B-L Gauge Symmetry and S₃ Flavour Symmetry

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keywords symmetryneutrinoseesawanomaly-freebeendiracflavourgauge
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Many studies have been made on extensions of the standard model with $B-L$ gauge symmetry. The addition of three singlet (right-handed) neutrinos renders it anomaly-free. It has always been assumed that the spontaneous breaking of $B-L$ is accomplished by a singlet scalar field carrying two units of $B-L$ charge. This results in a very natural implementation of the Majorana seesaw mechanism for neutrinos. However, there exists in fact another simple anomaly-free solution which allows Dirac or inverse seesaw neutrino masses. We show for the first time these new possibilities and discuss an application to neutrino mixing with $S_3$ flavour symmetry.

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