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Type-II Seesaw at Collider, Lepton Asymmetry and Singlet Scalar Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-05-27 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

We propose an extension of the standard model with a B-L global symmetry that is broken softly at the TeV scale. The neutrinos acquire masses through a type-II seesaw while the lepton (L) asymmetry arises in the {\it singlet sector} but without B-L violation. The model has the virtue that the scale of L-number violation (Λ\Lambda) giving rise to neutrino masses is independent of the scale of leptogenesis (Λ\Lambda'). As a result the model can explain {\it neutrino masses, singlet scalar dark matter and leptogenesis at the TeV scale}. The stability of the dark matter is ensured by a surviving Z2Z_2 symmetry, which could be lifted at the Planck scale and thereby allowing Planck scale-suppressed decay of singlet scalar dark matter particles of mass 3\approx 3 MeV to e+ee^+ e^- pairs in the Galactic halo. The model also predicts a few hundred GeV doubly charged scalar and a long lived charged fermion, whose decay can be studied at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and International Linear Collider (ILC).

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@article{arxiv.0711.4820,
  title  = {Type-II Seesaw at Collider, Lepton Asymmetry and Singlet Scalar Dark Matter},
  author = {John McDonald and Narendra Sahu and Utpal Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.4820},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

8 pages, double column, references are added, minor change in title, section-III is revised, one figure is added, typos are corrected