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-Seesaw scenarios can be understood systematically by looking at the Weinberg operator. The Weinberg operator $\frac{1}{\Lambda}LL \phi \phi$ is a (non-renormalizable) dimension-5 operator that yields nonzero masses for the neutrinos. Since it is an dimension-5 operator, it is suppressed by some large mass scale $\Lambda$. The origin of the Weinberg operator can be understood in terms of concrete seesaw scenarios (UV-completions).+Seesaw scenarios can be understood systematically by looking at the Weinberg operator. The Weinberg operator $\frac{1}{\Lambda} LL \phi \phi$ is a (non-renormalizable) dimension-5 operator that yields nonzero masses for the neutrinos. Since it is an dimension-5 operator, it is suppressed by some large mass scale $\Lambda$. The origin of the Weinberg operator can be understood in terms of concrete seesaw scenarios (UV-completions). 
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 +There are three seesaw scenarios that yield the Weinberg operator in the low-energy limit when we integrate out all heavy fields and thus use an [[advanced_tools:​effective_field_theory|effective field theory]] approach. In particular, we can distinguish different scenarios depending on how we understand the contractions of our $SU(2)_L$ multiplets:​ 
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 +In terms of Feynman diagrams, the three scenarios can be understood as follows: 
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-There are three seesaw scenarios that yield the Weinberg operator in the low-energy limit when we integrate out all heavy fields and thus use an effective field theory approach. 
  
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