27 June 2022 to 1 July 2022
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Europe/Lisbon timezone

The hidden side of scalar-triplet models with spontaneous CP violation

30 Jun 2022, 16:45
15m
Room QA1.2, South Tower (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal)

Room QA1.2, South Tower

Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

Speaker

Bernardo Lopes Gonçalves

Description

The Standard Model of particle physics is in remarkable agreement with most experimental data so far. However, a lot of questions remain unanswered, such as the origin of neutrino masses or the need for extra sources of CP violation. Possible solutions rest on scalar sector extensions, popular beyond-the-Standard-Model scenarios. The addition of scalar triplets is an attractive possibility, with small neutrino masses being generated via the type-II seesaw mechanism. Such models are much studied in the literature, but they still hide some features underneath. Although not possible with just one triplet, a CP-breaking vacuum is possible with the addition of two triplets, which could lead to interesting leptonic CP-violating effects. However, it also introduces novel and unexpected features in its scalar spectrum. In this work, we briefly present such hidden features. Based on https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.13179.pdf.

Authors

Bernardo Lopes Gonçalves Filipe Rafael Joaquim Pedro Ferreira (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa — ISEL, 1959-007 Lisboa, Portugal, Centro de F ́ısica Te ́orica e Computacional,)

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