PIRSA:17120025

Small Neutrino Masses from Gravitational Anomaly: A New Class of Models and Its Cosmological and Phenomenological Implications

Funcke, L. (2017). Small Neutrino Masses from Gravitational Anomaly: A New Class of Models and Its Cosmological and Phenomenological Implications. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/17120025

Funcke, Lena. Small Neutrino Masses from Gravitational Anomaly: A New Class of Models and Its Cosmological and Phenomenological Implications. Perimeter Institute, Dec. 19, 2017, https://pirsa.org/17120025 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:17120025,
            doi = {10.48660/17120025},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/17120025},
            author = {Funcke, Lena},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Small Neutrino Masses from Gravitational Anomaly: A New Class of Models and Its Cosmological and Phenomenological Implications},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2017},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:17120025 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Lena Funcke University of Bonn

DOI 10.48660/17120025
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

The Standard Model of particle physics and its implications for cosmology leave several fundamental questions unanswered, including the strong CP problem and the origins of neutrino masses, dark matter, and dark energy. Previous directions of model building beyond the Standard Model have usually focused on new high-energy physics. As an alternative direction, we have developed a class of low-energy neutrino mass and axion models at a new infrared gravitational scale, which is numerically coincident with the scale of dark energy. In this seminar, I will present this novel class of models and expand on the aspect of gravitational neutrino mass generation. My talk will also cover the wide-ranging cosmological and phenomenological model predictions, in particular the invalidity of the cosmological neutrino mass bound, enhanced neutrino decays, and soft topological defects.