Models of Light Singlet Fermion and Neutrino Phenomenology

Abstract

We suggest that a singlet fermion $S$ exists beyond the standard see-saw structure. It mixes with light neutrinos via interactions with the right-handed neutrino components, so that ${\text{n}}_e\to S$ conversion solves the solar neutrino problem. Supersymmetry endowed with R-symmetry is shown to give a natural framework for existence, mass scale and mixing (${\sin }^{2}2{\mathrm{th}}_{es}\sim (0.1-1.5)\cdot 10^{-2}$) of such a fermion. Models with an approximate horizontal symmetry are constructed, which embed the fermion $S$ and explain simultaneously solar, atmospheric, hot dark matter problems as well as may predict the oscillation ${\bar{\text{n}}}_{\text{m}}\to {\bar{\text{n}}}_e$ in the region of sensitivity of KARMEN and LSND experiments.

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