Solution to the neutrino-mass problem in superstringtheory
- 10 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 56 (6) , 564-567
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.56.564
Abstract
We discuss the problem of neutrino mass, which arises in the low-energy limit of superstring theories. We propose a new mechanism, where the higher-dimensional terms in the Lagrangian can generate a small mass for the physical neutrinos.Keywords
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