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Neutrino Mass and Neutrinoless double beta decay in SO(10) GUT with Pati-Salam symmetry

arXiv:1705.04125

Abstract

We demonstrate how a class of non-supersymmetric GUT with asymmetric left-right theory and Pati-Salam theory as intermediate symmetry breaking steps leads to successful gauge coupling unification satisfying proton decay constraints. The motivation behind this work is two fold: firstly to study the renormalization group evolution equations for gauge couplings by keeping right-handed neutral gauge boson around LHC energy range leading interesting dilepton searches at collider while fixing charge partner of the gauge boson at very high scale; secondly to explain neutrino masses and associated lepton number violating process like neutrinoless double beta decay in three possible cases depending on how breaks down to SM. We include one extra fermion singlet per generation in order to implement gauged extended seesaw where light neutrino mass is governed by natural type-II seesaw mechanism whereas type-I seesaw contribution is exactly canceled out. Since light neutrino mass formula is independent of Dirac neutrino mass matrix, the value of Dirac neutrino mass is taken to be up-type quark mass matrix which is a characteristics of Pati-Salam symmetry relating quarks with leptons. We present analytic relation for effective Majorana mass parameter and corresponding half-life arising from new physics contributions due to purely left-handed currents through exchange of heavy right-handed neutrinos and sterile neutrinos. We numerically estimate effective Majorana mass parameter and half-life vs. lightest neutrino mass and derive lower bound on lightest neutrino mass by saturating with experimental bounds like GERDA Phase-II, KamLANDZen and EXO.

38 pages, 15 figures, regular article

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