SLAC-PUB-7792 hep-ph/yymmnnn Light active and sterile neutrinos from compositeness
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Neutrinos can have naturally small Dirac masses if the Standard Model singlet right-handed neutrinos are light composite fermions. Theories which produce light composite fermions typically generate many of them, three of which can marry the left-handed neutrinos with small Dirac masses. The rest can serve as sterile states which can mix with the Standard Model neutrinos. We present explicit models illustrating this idea. Research supported by the Department of Energy under contract DE-AC03-76SF00515
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