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Implications of Higgs’ universality for physics beyond the Standard Model

T. Goldman

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87501, USA

Theoretical Division, MS-B283, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA

E-mail Address: tjgoldman@post.harvard.edu

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G. J. Stephenson, Jr.

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87501, USA

Theoretical Division, MS-B283, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA

E-mail Address: gjs@phys.unm.edu

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Abstract

We emulate Cabibbo by assuming a kind of universality for fermion mass terms in the Standard Model. We show that this is consistent with all current data and with the concept that deviations from what we term Higgs’ universality are due to corrections from currently unknown physics of nonetheless conventional form. The application to quarks is straightforward, while the application to leptons makes use of the recognition that Dark Matter can provide the “sterile” neutrinos needed for the seesaw mechanism. Requiring agreement with neutrino oscillation results leads to the prediction that the mass eigenstates of the sterile neutrinos are separated by quadratically larger ratios than for the charged fermions. Using consistency with the global fit to LSND-like, short-baseline oscillations to determine the scale of the lowest mass sterile neutrino strongly suggests that the recently observed astrophysical 3.55 keV $γ$ $γ$ -ray line is also consistent with the mass expected for the second most massive sterile neutrino in our analysis.

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Implications of Higgs’ universality for physics beyond the Standard Model

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