Neutrino Masses within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

Abstract

We investigate the possibility of accommodating neutrino masses compatible with the MSW study of the Solar neutrino deficit within the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model. The ``gravity-induced'' seesaw mechanism based on an interplay of nonrenormalizable and renormalizable terms in the superpotential allows neutrino masses $m_{\nu }\propto m_u^2/M_I$, with $m_u$ the corresponding quark mass and $M_I\simeq 4\times 10^{11}$ GeV, while at the same time ensuring the grand desert with the gauge coupling unification at $M_U\simeq 2\times 10^{16}$ GeV. The proposed scenario may be realized in a class of string vacua, {\it i.e.,} large radius ($R^2/{\alpha }^{\prime }=\mathcal{O}(20)$) $(0,2)$ Calabi-Yau spaces. In this case $M_U^2=M_C^2/\mathcal{O}(2R^2/{\alpha }^{\prime })$ and $M_I=\mathcal{O}(e^{-R^2/{\alpha }^{\prime }})M_C$. Here $M_C=g\times 5.2\times 10^{17}$GeV is the scale of the tree level (genus zero) gauge coupling ($g$) unification.

14 pg. (The value of the tree level gauge coupling unification scale in string theory has been revised. In addition, the authors would like to appologize to the readers for erroneously submitting the paper to the HEPTH bulletin board instead of the HEPPH one.)

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