Estimates of the masses of heavy right-handed neutrino particles using the seesaw mechanism

Abstract

The mass estimates of active and sterile (right-handed) neutrinos are considered at the phenomenological level using the seesaw mechanism. It is assumed that the neutrino mass values depend on three characteristic scales, and the sum of the active neutrino mass values is limited from above by 0.06 eV. The neutrino mass values are estimated, as well as the observable neutrino mass values, namely, the average mass m_C of active neutrinos and the kinematic neutrino mass m_{\beta} of beta-decay.