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Dynamical inverse seesaw mechanism as a simple benchmark for electroweak breaking and Higgs boson studies

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  • Sanjoy Mandal  ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0171-07521,
  • Jorge C. Romão2,
  • Rahul Srivastava3 &
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  • José W. F. Valle1 

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The Standard Model (SM) vacuum is unstable for the measured values of the top Yukawa coupling and Higgs mass. Here we study the issue of vacuum stability when neutrino masses are generated through spontaneous low-scale lepton number violation. In the simplest dynamical inverse seesaw, the SM Higgs has two siblings: a massive CP-even scalar plus a massless Nambu-Goldstone boson, called majoron. For TeV scale breaking of lepton number, Higgs bosons can have a sizeable decay into the invisible majorons. We examine the interplay and complementarity of vacuum stability and perturbativity restrictions, with collider constraints on visible and invisible Higgs boson decay channels. This simple framework may help guiding further studies, for example, at the proposed FCC facility.

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    Sanjoy Mandal & José W. F. Valle

  2. Departamento de Física and CFTP, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    Jorge C. Romão

  3. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – Bhopal, Bhopal Bypass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal, 462066, India

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Mandal, S., Romão, J.C., Srivastava, R. et al. Dynamical inverse seesaw mechanism as a simple benchmark for electroweak breaking and Higgs boson studies. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 29 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2021)029

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