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We discuss a simple theory for neutrino masses where the total lepton number is a local gauge symmetry spontaneously broken below the multi-TeV scale. In this context, the neutrino masses are generated through the canonical seesaw mechanism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-02 Hridoy Debnath , Pavel Fileviez Perez , Kevin Gonzalez-Quesada

We consider a very weakly interacting KeV majoron as dark matter particle (DMP), which provides both the critical density $\rho_{cr} = 1.88 \times 10^{-29} h^{2}$ $g/cm^{3}$ and the galactic scale $M_{gal}$ $\sim m^{3}_{Pl}/m^{2}_{J} \sim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 V. Berezinsky , J. W. F. Valle

We consider the scenario of large scale structure formation with tau neutrino with mass in the MeV range and lifetime of order of years which decays into a massive majoron with KeV mass. The latter are the present-day cold dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Dolgov , S. Pastor , J. W. F. Valle

The smallness of neutrino mass, the strong CP problem, and the existence of dark matter are explained in an economical way. The neutrino mass is generated by the colored version of a radiative seesaw mechanism by using color adjoint…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-01 Ernest Ma , Takahiro Ohata , Koji Tsumura

We consider the singlet Majoron model with softly broken lepton number. This model contains three right-handed neutrinos and a singlet scalar besides the standard model fields. The real part of the singlet scalar develops a vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Pei-Hong Gu , Ernest Ma , Utpal Sarkar

We discuss in detail the possibility that the ``type-II majoron'' -- that is, the pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson that arises in the context of the type-II seesaw mechanism if the lepton number is spontaneously broken by an additional singlet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-08 Carla Biggio , Lorenzo Calibbi , Toshihiko Ota , Samuele Zanchini

We discuss a class of theories for Majorana neutrinos where the total lepton number is a local gauge symmetry. These theories predict a dark matter candidate from anomaly cancellation. We discuss the properties of the dark matter candidate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-12 Hridoy Debnath , Pavel Fileviez Perez

The spontaneous breaking of the global lepton number, an accidental symmetry in the Standard Model of particle physics, results in a massless goldstone boson, the Majoron, which can be taken as a cold dark matter candidate with properties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-14 Wei Chao , Ying-Quan Peng

We study a minimal extension of the Standard Model where a scalar field is coupled to the right handed neutrino responsible for the see-saw mechanism for neutrino masses. In the absence of other couplings, below 8 TeV the scalar $A$ has a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-08 Emilian Dudas , Yann Mambrini , Keith Olive

The particle spectrum of all Majorana neutrino mass models with spontaneous violation of global lepton number include a Goldstone boson, the so-called majoron. The presence of this massless pseudoscalar changes the phenomenology…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-18 Antonio Herrero-Brocal , Avelino Vicente

A convincing explanation of the smallness of neutrino masses is represented by the Type-I Seesaw mechanism, where the two measured neutrino mass differences can be generated by introducing at least two right-handed neutrinos. In an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-30 Arturo de Giorgi , Luca Merlo , Xavier Ponce Díaz , Stefano Rigolin

The singlet majoron model of seesaw neutrino mass is appended by one dark Majorana fermion singlet $\chi$ with $L=2$ and one dark complex scalar singlet $\zeta$ with $L=1$. This simple setup allows $\chi$ to obtain a small radiative mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Ernest Ma , Valentina De Romeri

We show that the late-decaying particle scenario may be realized in the supersymmetric singlet majoron model with the majoron scale $10-200$ TeV. The smajoron decaying into two neutrinos is the late-decaying particle with the mass $0.1-1$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 E. J. Chun

We discuss a model of neutrino mass based on the type I seesaw mechanism embedded in a spontaneously broken global lepton number framework with a $Z_2$ symmetry. We show that the resulting Majoron is a viable freeze-in dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-28 Stephen F. King , Soumen Kumar Manna , Rishav Roshan , Arunansu Sil

Any theory that have a global spontaneously broken symmetry will imply the existence of very light neutral bosons or massless bosons (sometimes called Majorons). For most of these models we have neutrino-Majoron couplings, that appear as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. P. Lessa , O. L. G. Peres

We show that for a relatively light majoron ($\ll 100 $ eV) non-thermal production from topological defects is an efficient production mechanism. Taking the type I seesaw as benchmark scheme, we estimate the primordial majoron abundance and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-17 Mario Reig , José W. F. Valle , Masaki Yamada

Neutrino decay to a lighter neutrino and a massless or almost massless (pseudo)scalar Goldstone boson remains of wide interest, as in the search for ultralight dark matter or for neutrinoless double beta-decay, and for its implications in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Pilar Iváñez-Ballesteros , M. Cristina Volpe

We study an effective theory beyond the standard model (SM) where either of two additional gauge singlets, a Majorana fermion and a real scalar, constitutes all or some fraction of dark matter. In particular, we focus on the masses of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Wen Yin

We present singlet-Majoron couplings to Standard Model particles through two loops at leading order in the seesaw expansion, including couplings to gauge bosons as well as flavor-changing quark interactions. We discuss and compare the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-20 Julian Heeck , Hiren H. Patel

We study dark matter(DM) in the model with one keV scale right-handed neutrino $\nu_{R1}$ and two GeV scale right-handed neutrinos $\nu_{R2,3}$, the $\nu$SM. We find that one of the GeV scale right-handed neutrinos can have much longer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Wei Liao