Neutrino Mass and Lepton Number Violation with Charged Scalars

Abstract

If there exist only three light neutrinos below the weak scale, the neutrino masses can arise by breaking the lepton number L. One example is the Zee mechanism for the neutrino masses. We study phenomenological implications of neutrino masses arising from the L violation through introduction of SU(2) X U(1) singlet scalars with Q_{em}=1 and 2.

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures, references are added