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With the recent experimental hint of new physics from flavor physics anomalies, combined with the evidence from neutrino masses and dark matter, we consider a minimal extension of SM with a scalar leptoquark and a fermion triplet. The scalar leptoquark with couplings to leptons and quarks can explain lepton flavor non-universality observables RK, R K ∗ , R D ∗ and RJ/ψ. Neutral component of fermion triplet provides current abundance of dark matter in the Universe. The interesting feature of the proposal is that the minimal addition of these phenomenologically rich particles (scalar leptoquark and fermion triplet) assist in realizing the unification of the gauge couplings associated with the strong and electroweak forces of standard model when embedded in the non-supersymmetric SO(10) grand unified theory. We discuss on unification mass scale and the corresponding proton decay constraints while taking into account the GUT threshold corrections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We explore an A 4 flavor-based left–right symmetric model where neutrino masses and mixing are explained through linear seesaw mechanism. Taking A 4 flavor symmetry and left–right gauge symmetry together and adding a low-scale seesaw mechanism gives the advantage of (a) getting diagonal structures for both charged lepton mass matrix and Dirac neutrino mass matrix, (b) simpler relations among neutrino observables in the model and (c) large light-heavy neutrino mixing which gives dominant contributions to various lepton flavor violating decays like μ → e γ , μ → e e e , μ → e. By saturating the experimental bounds on these decays we derive constraints on input model parameters and study analytically as well as numerically the correlation among model parameters and their dependence on experimentally determined neutrino parameters like 1 2 , 2 3 , 1 3 , Δ m atm 2 , Δ m sol 2 . We also study CP-violation via Jarlskog invariants and show extra contributions to CP-violating effects that the model generates due to unitarity violation in the neutrino sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The presence of small neutrino masses and flavour mixings can be accounted for naturally in various models about extensions of the standard model, particularly in the seesaw mechanism models. In this work, we present a minimally extended seesaw framework with two right-handed neutrinos, where the active neutrino masses are derived in the radiative regime. Using the framework it can be shown that within certain mass limits, the light neutrino mass term can approach a form that is similar to its form under type-I seesaw mechanism. Apart from this, we show that the decay width of right-handed neutrinos (produced through the decay of W boson in a particle collider) is short enough to cause a sufficiently long lifetime for the particles, thus ensuring an observable displacement in the LHC between the production and decay vertices. We comment on the fact that these displaced vertex signatures thus can serve as a means to verify the existence of these right-handed neutrinos in future experiments. Lastly, we line up the possibility of our future work where the vertex signatures of particles greater than the mass of W boson can be worked upon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We explore the connection between low-scale CP-violating Dirac phase (δ) and high-scale leptogenesis in a Left-Right Symmetric Model (LRSM) with scalar bidoublet and doublets. The fermion sector of the model is extended with one sterile neutrino (SL) per generation to implement a double seesaw mechanism in the neutral fermion mass matrix. The double seesaw is performed via the implementation of type-I seesaw twice. The first seesaw facilitates the generation of Majorana mass term for heavy right-handed (RH) neutrinos (NR), and the light neutrino mass becomes linearly dependent on SL mass in the second. In our framework, we have taken charge conjugation (C) as the discrete left-right (LR) symmetry. This choice assists in deriving the Dirac neutrino mass matrix (MD) in terms of the light and heavy RH neutrino masses and light neutrino mixing matrix UPMNS (containing δ). We illustrate the viability of unflavored thermal leptogenesis via the decay of RH neutrinos by using the obtained MD with the masses of RH neutrinos as input parameters. A complete analysis of the Boltzmann equations describing the asymmetry evolution is performed in the unflavored regime, and it is shown that with or without Majorana phases, the CP-violating Dirac phase is sufficient to produce the required asymmetry in the leptonic sector within this framework for a given choice of input parameters. Finally, we comment on the possibility of constraining our model with the current and near-future oscillation experiments, which are aimed at refining the value of δ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We consider a minimal renormalizable non-supersymmetric E 6 Grand Unified Theory using fundamental representation 27 for fermions and scalars. The scalar with adjoint representation 78 is also taken for direct breaking of E 6 to SM. The proposed model, guided by TeV-scale vector-like fermions and scalar leptoquark, offers successful gauge unification even in the absence of any intermediate symmetry. Embedded with threshold corrections, it is shown to be compatible with the present experimental limit on proton decay lifetime. The unique feature of the model shows that the GUT threshold corrections to the unification mass is controlled by superheavy gauge bosons only, thereby minimizing the uncertainty of the GUT predictions. The scalar leptoquark and vector-like fermions residing in 27 representation can explain flavor physics anomalies like R D (∗) as reported by the LHCb collaboration and the muon anomalous magnetic moment reported by the recent muon g − 2 experiment at Fermilab. The model can also predict a sub-eV scale neutrino at one-loop level via exchange of W and Z gauge bosons through MRIS mechanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We consider a non-supersymmetric E 6 Grand Unified Theory (GUT) with intermediate trinification symmetry S U (3) C × S U (3) L × S U (3) R × D (D denoted as D-parity for discrete left-right symmetry) and study the effect of one-loop threshold corrections arising due to every class of superheavy particles (scalars, fermions and vectors). It is observed that, the intermediate mass scale M I and sin 2 ⁡ θ W remain unaffected by GUT threshold contributions. The threshold modified unification mass scale M U is in excellent agreement with the present experimental proton decay constraint. The novel feature of the model is that GUT threshold uncertainty of M U is found to be controlled by superheavy scalars only, leading to a very predictive scenario for proton decay, which can be verifiable within the foreseeable experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]