Published January 1, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Radiative seesaw model: Warm dark matter, collider signatures, and lepton flavor violating signals

  • 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).

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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

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