Naturalness in see-saw mechanism and Bogoliubov transformation

• Main Authors: Kazuo Fujikawa, Anca Tureanu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017-04-01
• Series: Physics Letters B
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269317300874

We present an alternative perspective on the see-saw mechanism for the neutrino mass, according to which the small neutrino mass is given as a difference of two large masses. This view emerges when an analogue of the Bogoliubov transformation is used to describe Majorana neutrinos in the Lagrangian of the see-saw mechanism, which is analogous to the BCS theory. The Bogoliubov transformation clarifies the natural appearance of Majorana fermions when C is strongly violated by the right-handed neutrino mass term with good CP in the single flavor model. Analyzing typical models with mR=104 to 1015 GeV, it is shown that a hitherto unrecognized fine tuning of the order mν/mR=10−15 to 10−26 is required to make the commonly perceived see-saw mechanism work in a natural setting, namely, when none of the dimensionless coupling constants are very small.