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If the preon structure of quarks, leptons and gauge bosons will be proved then in the Universe during relativistic phase transition the production of nonperturbative preon condensates has been occured collective excitations of which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 V. Burdyuzha , O. Lalakulich , Yu. Ponomarev , G. Vereshkov

We study a three loop induced neutrino mass model with exotic vector-like isospin doublet leptons which contain a dark matter candidate. Then we explore lepton flavor violations, and dark matter physics in co-annihilation system. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Takaaki Nomura , Hiroshi Okada , Yuta Orikasa

The majoron, a pseudo-Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of global lepton number, is a generic feature of many models intended to explain the origin of the small neutrino masses. In this work, we investigate potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-06 Miguel Escudero , Samuel J. Witte

The majoron is the Nambu-Goldstone boson associated with the spontaneous breaking of a global $B-L$ symmetry. Remarkably, the minimal majoron framework can simultaneously address three key empirical indications of physics beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-20 Arturo de Giorgi , Daniel Naredo-Tuero , Xavier Ponce Díaz

In some dark matter models, the coupling of the dark matter particle to the standard model Higgs determines the dark matter relic density while it is also consistent with dark matter direct detection experiments. On the other hand, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-09 Adisorn Adulpravitchai , Pei-Hong Gu , Manfred Lindner

We explain excess events near the endpoints of the double beta decay spectra of several elements, using the neutrinoless emission of massless Goldstone bosons. Models with scalars carrying lepton number $-2$ are proposed for this purpose so…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. P. Burgess , J. M. Cline

The majoron, a neutrinophilic pseudo-Goldstone boson conventionally arising in the context of neutrino mass models, can damp neutrino free-streaming and inject additional energy density into neutrinos prior to recombination. The combination…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-18 Miguel Escudero , Samuel J. Witte

We examine the cosmology of warm dark matter (WDM), both stable and decaying, from the point of view of structure formation. We compare the matter power spectrum associated to WDM masses of 1.5 keV and 0.158 keV, with that expected for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 Jui-Lin Kuo , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Kingman Cheung , José W. F. Valle

We show that Majorana neutrinos convert into antineutrinos in a background of ultralight vector dark matter coupled to lepton number, such as the gauge boson of $\text{U}(1)_{B-L}$ or $\text{U}(1)_{L_i - L_j}$ with $i, j = e , \mu, \tau$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-11 Asher Berlin , Rodolfo Capdevilla , Ting Cheng , Matheus Hostert , Pedro A. N. Machado

We propose an A_4 flavor-symmetric SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) seesaw model where lepton number is broken spontaneously. A consistent two-zero texture pattern of neutrino masses and mixing emerges from the interplay of type-I and type-II seesaw…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 J. N. Esteves , F. R. Joaquim , A. S. Joshipura , J. C. Romao , M. A. Tortola , J. W. F. Valle

We study the 1-loop renormalization group equation running in the simplest singlet Majoron model constructed by us earlier to accommodate the dark radiation and dark matter content in the universe. A comprehensive numerical study was…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 We-Fu Chang , John N. Ng

Scalar (fermion) dark matter with mass in the MeV range coupled to ordinary neutrinos and another fermion (scalar) is motivated by scenarios that establish a link between radiatively generated neutrino masses and the dark matter relic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Yasaman Farzan , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle and a cold dark matter candidate. It could dominate potential wells of most astrophysical objects. Axions spontaneously decay into nearly monochromatic microwave photons. We present results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. D. Blout , E. J. Daw , M. P. Decowski , Paul T. P. Ho , L. J Rosenberg , D. B. Yu

We show that a recently proposed extension of the MSSM can provide a scenario where both the cold and hot dark matter of the universe owe their origin to a single scale connected with the breakdown of the global B-L symmetry. The susy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. N. Mohapatra , A. Riotto

It has been proposed that two resonances could coincide in the early universe at temperatures $T \sim 0.2 ... 0.5$ GeV: one between two nearly degenerate GeV-scale sterile neutrinos, producing a large lepton asymmetry through freeze-out and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-08 J. Ghiglieri , M. Laine

We argue that the axion arising in the solution of the strong CP problem can be identified with the Majoron, the (pseudo-)Goldstone boson of spontaneously broken lepton number symmetry. At low energies, the associated $U(1)_L$ becomes, via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-08 Adam Latosinski , Krzysztof A. Meissner , Hermann Nicolai

It is assumed, that there are two scales in quantum gravity. Metric fluctuates at the scales of the order of the Plank mass. The second scale $M_T$ is related to the fluctuations of torsion. We suppose, that it may be as low as $M_T \sim 1$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-01 M. A. Zubkov

Neutrinos, being massive, can decay. A heavier neutrino could decay into a lighter one and a massless scalar or pseudoscalar boson, such as the Majoron. Two-body non-radiative decay could occur in dense matter, such as in the inner dense…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 Pilar Iváñez-Ballesteros , M. Cristina Volpe

We propose a Majoron-like extension of the Standard Model with an extra global $U(1)_X$-symmetry where neutrino masses are generated through an inverse seesaw mechanism at the 1-loop level. In contrast to the tree-level inverse seesaw, our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-17 Cesar Bonilla , A. E. Cárcamo Hernández , Bastián Díaz Sáez , Sergey Kovalenko , Juan Marchant González

We consider a decaying magnetic dark matter explaining the X-ray line at 3.55 keV shown recently from XMM-Newton observations. We introduce two singlet Majorana fermions that have almost degenerate masses and fermion-portal couplings with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-30 Hyun Min Lee