Scotogenic Froggatt-Nielsen and the versatility of soft symmetry breaking

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 th...

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Main Author: Ernest Ma
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-06-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269325002357
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description 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.
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spelling doaj-art-568e5b2dc1254a4e92992a99d63f54752025-08-20T03:48:51ZengElsevierPhysics Letters B0370-26932025-06-0186513947410.1016/j.physletb.2025.139474Scotogenic Froggatt-Nielsen and the versatility of soft symmetry breakingErnest Ma0Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USAPreserving 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.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269325002357
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Scotogenic Froggatt-Nielsen and the versatility of soft symmetry breaking
Physics Letters B
title Scotogenic Froggatt-Nielsen and the versatility of soft symmetry breaking
title_full Scotogenic Froggatt-Nielsen and the versatility of soft symmetry breaking
title_fullStr Scotogenic Froggatt-Nielsen and the versatility of soft symmetry breaking
title_full_unstemmed Scotogenic Froggatt-Nielsen and the versatility of soft symmetry breaking
title_short Scotogenic Froggatt-Nielsen and the versatility of soft symmetry breaking
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