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Scotogenic Froggatt-Nielsen and the versatility of soft symmetry breaking

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Preserving the unique role of the one Higgs doublet of the standard model, it is proposed that quark and lepton mass patterns, often ascribed to the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism using nonrenormalizable higher-dimensional terms, may be enforced in a renormalizable theory of just one Higgs doublet by the scotogenic mechanism with soft symmetry breaking in the dark sector. A revised version of the original A4 model of charged leptons and neutrinos is discussed.

Source: Physics Letters B

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139474

Author: Ernest Ma

Language: English

Topic: Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Award: HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS- ENERGY, INTENSITY, THEORETICAL FRONTIER

OpenAlex ID: W4409529195

FWCI: 1.42

Cites: 5

Cited by: 3

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