Abstract
We analyze a scenario where the right-handed neutrinos make part of a strongly coupled conformal field theory and acquire an anomalous dimension γ<1 at a large scale Λ. Their Yukawa couplings to the Higgs become irrelevant at the fixed point and they are suppressed at low scales giving rise naturally to a small (sub-meV) Dirac neutrino mass which breaks the conformal invariance. We derive an upper bound on γ from loop-induced flavor changing neutral currents. Neutrino Yukawa couplings can be sizable at electroweak scales and therefore the invisible decay of the Higgs in the neutrino channel can be comparable to the cc¯ and ττ¯ modes and predict interesting Higgs phenomenology. If lepton number is violated in the conformal theory an irrelevant Majorana mass operator for right-handed neutrinos appears for γ>1/2 giving rise to an inverse see-saw mechanism. In this case light sterile neutrinos do appear and neutrino oscillation experiments are able to probe our model.
Highlights
We analyze a scenario where the right-handed neutrinos make part of a strongly coupled conformal field theory and acquire an anomalous dimension γ < 1 at a large scale Λ
It is possible to write down Yukawa couplings of the neutrinos to the Higgs field, thereby generating Dirac mass terms after electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) in the standard way
On top of that one can allow for Majorana mass terms for the right-handed neutrinos as the latter are totally sterile with respect to the Standard Model (SM)
Summary
We analyze a scenario where the right-handed neutrinos make part of a strongly coupled conformal field theory and acquire an anomalous dimension γ < 1 at a large scale Λ. It is possible to write down Yukawa couplings of the neutrinos to the Higgs field, thereby generating Dirac mass terms (mDν ) after electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) in the standard way. The most successful model so far consists of assigning to the right-handed neutrino a huge Majorana mass (mM νR), possibly generated by the breaking of a Grand Unified Theory (GUT) at a scale of the order 1016 GeV.
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