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TeV Scale Neutrino Mass Generation, Minimal Inelastic Dark Matter, and High Scale Leptogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-01-23 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The seesaw and leptogenesis commonly depend on the masses of same particles, and thus are both realized at the same scale. In this work, we demonstrate a new possibility to realize a TeV-scale neutrino seesaw and a natural high-scale leptogenesis. We extend the standard model by two gauge-singlet scalars, a vector-like iso-doublet fermion and one iso-triplet Higgs scalar. Our model respects a softly broken lepton number and an exactly conserved Z2Z_2 discrete symmetry. It can achieve three things altogether: (i) realizing a testable type-II seesaw at TeV scale with two nonzero neutrino mass-eigenvalues, (ii) providing a minimal inelastic dark matter from the new fermion doublets, and (iii) accommodating a thermal or nonthermal leptogenesis through the singlet scalar decays. We further analyze the current experimental constraints on our model and discuss the implications for the dark matter direct detections and the LHC searches.

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@article{arxiv.1808.09377,
  title  = {TeV Scale Neutrino Mass Generation, Minimal Inelastic Dark Matter, and High Scale Leptogenesis},
  author = {Pei-Hong Gu and Hong-Jian He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09377},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

PRD final version. 20 pages and 3 figures. Only minor refinements on the presentation and discussions, all conclusions un-changed, references added