Right-handed neutrino dark matter under the B-L gauge interaction
Abstract
We study the right-handed neutrino (RHN) dark matter candidate in the minimal U(1)_{B-L} gauge extension of the standard model. The U(1)_{B-L} gauge symmetry offers three RHNs which can address the origin of the neutrino mass, the relic dark matter, and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe. The lightest among the three is taken as the dark matter candidate, which is under the B-L gauge interaction. We investigate various scenarios for this dark matter candidate with the correct relic density by means of the freeze-out or freeze-in mechanism. A viable RHN dark matter mass lies in a wide range including keV to TeV scale. We emphasize the sub-electroweak scale light B-L gauge boson case, and identify the parameter region motivated from the dark matter physics, which can be tested with the planned experiments including the CERN SHiP experiment.
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@article{arxiv.1606.09317,
title = {Right-handed neutrino dark matter under the B-L gauge interaction},
author = {Kunio Kaneta and Zhaofeng Kang and Hye-Sung Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.09317},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Version accepted for publication in JHEP