Phenomenological Aspects of Models with Low Scale Seesaw

Abstract

Various phenomenological consequences of seesaw theories for the generation of the fermion mass hierarchy of the Standard Model have been analyzed, with an emphasis on models in which the light-active neutrino masses are derived from low-scale seesaw mechanisms. In particular, fermion masses and lepton flavor-violating decay processes, the flavor-changing neutral current, have been studied, and the implications of these theories for the observed dark matter relic density in the Universe have been determined. From the analysis of these phenomenological aspects, it was possible to determine the allowed parameter spaces of these theories and to obtain a parameter fit consistent with the currently measured experimental values. In this way, correlations between the different observables of the fermionic sector could be obtained, where all values were within the experimental ranges at $3\sigma$. Predictions for new physics consistent with cosmological limits were also obtained.