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Right-handed Neutrinos as Superheavy Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v3 Astrophysics

Abstract

We propose that right-handed neutrinos are very long-lived dark matter. The long lifetime is realized by the separation of the wavefunction of right-handed neutrinos and that of other fermions in an extra dimension. Such long-lived and superheavy dark matter can naturally explain observed ultra high energy cosmic rays above the GZK cutoff (5 * 10^{19} eV) and huge amounts of cold dark matter simultaneously. Furthermore, the exponentially suppressed Yukawa couplings of right-handed neutrinos leads to the high predictablilty on the mass parameter of the neutrinoless double beta decay, as all the models which predict very small neutrino mass of one generation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0107297,
  title  = {Right-handed Neutrinos as Superheavy Dark Matter},
  author = {Yosuke Uehara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0107297},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures, to appear in JHEP