2017
DOI: 10.1142/s021773231730004x
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Is left–right symmetry the key?

Abstract: In collaboration with Jogesh Pati, Abdus Salam challenged the chiral gauge nature of the Standard Model by paving the road towards the Left-Right symmetric electro-weak theory. I describe here the logical and historical construction of this theory, by emphasising the pioneering and key role it played for neutrino mass. I show that it is a self-contained and predictive model with the Higgs origin of Majorana neutrino mass, in complete analogy with the SM situation regarding charged fermions.

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“…Since then, the model with the following scalar multiplets: one bidoublet and two triplets was considered the minimal left-right symmetric model. There is no doubt that this proposal was, and still is, well motivated [57]. However, if the neutrinos ultimately turn out to be Dirac particles, all that effort will have been in vain.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…Since then, the model with the following scalar multiplets: one bidoublet and two triplets was considered the minimal left-right symmetric model. There is no doubt that this proposal was, and still is, well motivated [57]. However, if the neutrinos ultimately turn out to be Dirac particles, all that effort will have been in vain.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…and parity P which ensures the equality between couplings in the left and right sectors, are still one of the most appealing and well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model (SM) [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Spontaneous breaking of SU (2) R × U (1) B−L × P down to the SM symmetry group explains the observed low-energy asymmetry between the left and right as well as provides a natural framework for the generation of small neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism [16][17][18][19].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Additionally, the see-saw mechanism comes in rather naturally in the context of leftright symmetric scenarios; aside from other nice features, as for instance the recovery of Parity Symmetry, and the appearance of right-handed currents at high energy, which also makes such extensions very appealing. Recently, the left-right scenarios have been revised [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] in order to make contact with the last experimental data of LHC. Moreover, the dark matter problem [26][27][28] and the diphoton excess anomaly [29][30][31][32][33] have been explored in this kind of scenarios.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%