Sterile neutrinos, $0\nu \beta \beta$ decay and the W-boson mass anomaly in a Flipped $SU(5)$ from F-theory

Abstract

We investigate the low energy properties of an effective local model with flipped $SU(5)\times U(1{)}_{\chi }$ gauge group, constructed within the framework of F-theory. Its origin is traced back to the $SO(10)$ symmetry -- associated with a geometric singularity of the compactification manifold -- broken by an internal flux which is turned on along the seven-brane in the $U(1{)}_{\chi }$ direction. Topological properties and the choice of flux parameters determine the massless spectrum of the model to be that of the minimal flipped $SU(5)$ supplemented with an extra right-handed electron-type state and its complex conjugate, $E^c+{\bar{E}}^c$, as well as neutral singlet fields. The subsequent symmetry breaking to the $SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1{)}_Y$ gauge group occurs with a Higgs pair in $10+\overline{10}$ representations of $SU(5)$. Next we proceed to the phenomenological analysis of the resulting effective model and the salient outcomes are: The $E^c+{\bar{E}}^c$ pair acquires a mass of few TeV and as such could solve the $g_{\mu }-2$ discrepancy. Neutrino couplings to extra neutral singlets lead to an inverse seesaw mechanism where an extra light state could be a suitable dark matter candidate. The predictions of the model for the $0\nu \beta \beta$ decay rate could be tested in near future experiments. There are non-unitarity deviations from lepton mixing matrix ($U_{PMNS}$), which could in principle explain the new precision measurement of the W-boson mass recently reported by CDF II collaboration.

Comments: Revised and expanded version. To appear in EPJC