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Neutrino-axion-dilaton interconnection

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2016

Abstract

We show that a recently proposed framework that provides a simple connection between Majorana neutrinos and an invisible axion in minimal scalar extensions of the standard electroweak model can be naturally embedded in a classically scale-invariant setup. The explicit breaking of the scale invariance a la Coleman-Weinberg generates the Peccei-Quinn and electroweak scales.

The spontaneous breaking of the chiral U(1)(PQ) triggers the generation of neutrino masses via Type-II seesaw and, at the same time, provides a dynamical solution to the strong CP problem as well as the axion as a dark matter candidate. The electroweak and neutrino mass scales are obtained via a technically natural ultraweak limit of the singlet scalar interactions.

Accordingly, a realistic and perturbatively stable scalar spectrum, possibly in the reach of the LHC, is naturally obtained. A very light pseudodilaton characterizes such a setting.

The vacuum stability of the extended setup is discussed.