Accessible Lepton-Number-Violating Models and Negligible Neutrino Masses

  • Event Date: 2019-12-30
  • Particle/String/Cosmology
  • Speaker: Dr. Wei-Chih Huang (CP3-Origins, University of Southern Denmark)  /  Host: Prof. Kingman Cheung (NTHU)
    Place: P512 of NCTS, 5F, 3rd General Building, Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.

In this talk, I will start with a brief review on lepton-number violation (LNV) and lepton-flavor violation (LFV) in the Standard Model and beyond as well as the connection between LNV and LFV. Then, I discuss a complete family of models where lepton number is violated but the generated Majorana neutrino masses are tiny, even if the new-physics scale is below 1~TeV. The phenomenology of these models are explored, including charged-lepton flavor-violating phenomena and baryon-number-violating phenomena. I will identity scenarios where the allowed rates for $\mu^-\to e^+$-conversion in nuclei are potentially accessible to next-generation experiments.