Examining the neutrino option

Understand

The neutrino option is a scenario where the electroweak scale, and thereby the Higgs mass, is generated simultaneously with neutrino masses in the seesaw model.

• This occurs via the leading one loop and tree level diagrams matching the seesaw model onto the Standard Model Effective Field Theory.
• We advance the study of this scenario by determining one loop corrections to the leading order matching results systematically, performing a detailed numerical analysis of the consistency of this approach with Neutrino data and the Standard Model particle masses, and by examining the embedding of this scenario into a more ultraviolet complete model.
• We find that the neutrino option remains a viable and intriguing scenario to explain the origin of observed particle masses.