Asaka, Blanchet, and Shaposhnikov introduced a “minimal” model named for these particles in a paper that notes the LMA solution concerning them. These particles all have an X charge of either minus 5 or minus 3. Tsutomu Yanagida named an argument involving these particles for the way a constant matrix determinant implies a certain link between two eigenvalues. Some of these particles’ properties are explained using a chiral example of them via the type I (“one”) seesaw mechanism. A hypothetical type of these particles, which are a promising dark matter candidate because their right-handedness lets them only couple to gravity, would increase the dimensions of the PMNS matrix and are termed “sterile.” For 10 points, the Standard Model does not account for oscillations between the electron, muon, and tau flavors of what “ghostly” leptons? ■END■
ANSWER: neutrinos [accept sterile neutrinos, right-handed neutrinos, heavy neutrinos, electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos, or tau neutrinos; accept neutrino flavor oscillations; accept neutrino minimal standard model; prompt on nu]
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