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We present a mechanism that naturally produces light Dirac neutrinos. The basic idea is that the right-handed neutrinos are composite. Any realistic composite model must involve ‘hidden flavor’ chiral symmetries. In general some of these symmetries may survive confinement, and in particular, one of them manifests itself at low energy as an exact B − L symmetry. Dirac neutrinos are therefore produced. The neutrinos are naturally light due to compositeness. In general, sterile states are present in the model, some of them can naturally be warm dark matter candidates.
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Grossman, Y., Robinson, D.J. Composite Dirac neutrinos. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 132 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2011)132
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