Espontaneous breaking of a global symmetry in a 331 model

In a 331 model in which the lepton masses arise from a scalar sextet it is possible to break spontaneously a global symmetry implying in a pseudoscalar majoron-like Goldstone boson. This majoron does not mix with any other scalar fields and for this reason it does not couple, at the tree level, neither to the charged leptons nor to the quarks. Moreover, its interaction with neutrinos is diagonal. We also argue that there is a set of the parameters in which that the model can be consistent with the invisible Z0-width and that heavy neutrinos can decay sufficiently rapid by majoron emission having a lifetime shorter than the age of the universe. PACS numbers: 14.80.Mz; 12.60.-i; 12.60.Fr Typeset using REVTEX ∗E-mail: [email protected] †E-mail: [email protected] ‡E-mail: [email protected]