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Higgs seesaw mechanism as a source for dark energy

Date

Authors

Krauss, Lawrence

Dent, James B

Publisher

American Physical Society

Abstract

Motivated by the seesaw mechanism for neutrinos which naturally generates small neutrino masses, we explore how a small grand-unified-theory-scale mixing between the standard model Higgs boson and an otherwise massless hidden sector scalar can naturally g

Keywords

Keywords: Dark energy; Expansion of the universe; Expectation values; Neutrino mass; Seesaw mechanism; The standard model; Vacuum energy density; Astrophysics; Elementary particles; Vacuum; Dark currents

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/73710

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Physical Review Letters

Type

Journal article

Access Statement

Open Access

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.061802

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