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Spontaneous breaking of the lepton number and invisible majoron in a 3-3-1 model

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In this work we implement the spontaneous breaking of lepton number in version II of the 3-3-1 models and study their phenomenological consequences. The main result of this work is that our majoron is invisible even though it belongs to a triplet representation by the 3-3-1 symmetry.

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  1. Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Caixa Postal 5008, 58059-970, João Pessoa - PB, Brazil

    C. A. S. de Pires & P. S. Rodrigues da Silva

  2. Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rua Pamplona 145, 01405-900, São Paulo - SP, Brazil

    P. S. Rodrigues da Silva

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Received: 9 March 2004, Revised: 3 June 2004, Published online: 14 July 2004

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S. de Pires, C.A., Rodrigues da Silva, P.S. Spontaneous breaking of the lepton number and invisible majoron in a 3-3-1 model. Eur. Phys. J. C 36, 397–403 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2004-01949-3

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