Radiative seesaw model: Warm dark matter, collider signatures, and lepton flavor violating signals
Creators
- 1. Instituto de Fisica, Universidad de Antioquia, A.A.1226, Medellin (Colombia)
- 2. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kanazawa University, 920-1192 Kanazawa (Japan)
- 3. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, C.P. 13, I00044 Frascati (Italy)
Description
Extending the standard model with three right-handed neutrinos (Nk) and a second Higgs doublet (η), odd under the discrete parity symmetry Z2, Majorana neutrino masses can be generated at one-loop order. In the resulting model, the lightest stable particle, either a boson or a fermion, might be a dark matter candidate. Here we assume a specific mass spectrum (M1<<M2<M3<mη) and derive its consequences for dark matter and collider phenomenology. We show that (i) the lightest right-handed neutrino is a warm dark matter particle that can give a ∼10% contribution to the dark matter density; (ii) several decay branching ratios of the charged scalar can be predicted from measured neutrino data. Especially interesting is that large lepton flavor violating rates in muon and tau final states are expected. Finally, we derive upper bounds on the right-handed neutrino Yukawa couplings from the current experimental limit on Br(μ→eγ).
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.013011;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0808.3340v3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 79
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 013011-013011.10
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41005273
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BRANCHING RATIO; COUPLING; DENSITY; ELECTRONS; FLAVOR MODEL; GAMMA RADIATION; HIGGS BOSONS; HIGGS MODEL; LEPTONS; MAJORANA THEORY; MASS; MASS SPECTRA; MUONS; NEUTRINOS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; RADIATIVE DECAY; STANDARD MODEL; SYMMETRY; YUKAWA POTENTIAL
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; COMPOSITE MODELS; DECAY; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; NUCLEAR POTENTIAL; PARTICLE DECAY; PARTICLE MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; POTENTIALS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL; RADIATIONS; SPECTRA; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2009 The American Physical Society