2002/10/31 by Yuval Grossman, Howard E. Haber
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Electroweak interaction #Electroweak scale #Geometry #Higgs boson #Lepton #Lepton number #Massless particle #Mathematics #Neutrino Physics Research #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Scalar (mathematics) #Supersymmetry #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.67.036002
published as Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 036002 · 13 pages, revtex4 style, version to be published in Phys. Rev. D
arxiv created 2002/12/13 · openalex publication_date 2003/02/13 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In lepton-number-violating supersymmetric models, there is no natural choice of basis to distinguish the down-type Higgs and lepton superfields. We employ basis-independent techniques to identify the massless Majoron and associated light scalar in the case of spontaneously broken lepton number (L). When explicit L violation is added, these two scalars can acquire masses of the order of the electroweak scale and can be identified as massive sneutrinos.