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We provide a generic framework to obtain stable dark matter along with naturally small Dirac neutrino masses generated at the loop level. This is achieved through the spontaneous breaking of the global $U(1)_{B-L}$ symmetry already present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-13 Cesar Bonilla , Salvador Centelles Chuliá , Ricardo Cepedello , Eduardo Peinado , Rahul Srivastava

We reconsider a cosmological evolution of domain walls produced by spontaneous breaking of an approxime discrete symmetry. We show, that domain walls may never collapse even if the standard bound on the vacuum energy asymmetry is satisfied.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Dvali , Z. Tavartkiladze , J. Nanobashvili

A theoretical framework based on a spontaneously broken $Z_4$ symmetry is proposed to simultaneously explain neutrino mass generation via the inverse seesaw mechanism and dark matter (DM) production through a freeze-in scenario. This work…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Ziye Wang , Yakefu Reyimuaji , Nijiati Yalikun

Non-Abelian discrete symmetries have been widely used to explain the patterns of lepton masses and flavor mixing. In these models, a given symmetry is assumed at a high scale and then is spontaneously broken by scalars (the flavons), which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-26 Graciela B. Gelmini , Silvia Pascoli , Edoardo Vitagliano , Ye-Ling Zhou

Topologically protected sheet-like surfaces, called domain walls, form when the potential of a field has a discrete symmetry that is spontaneously broken. Since this condition is commonplace in field theory, it is plausible that many of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-07 Cyrus Faroughy

We present a model that extends the standard model by incorporating the simplest discrete symmetry groups, $Z_2$ and $Z_3$. This model introduces vector-like leptons and a real scalar singlet. Based on this framework, we generate Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-20 Yakefu Reyimuaji , Murat Abdughani

It has been recently speculated that global symmetries are broken by gravity. We propose a scenario for the generation of the baryon asymmetry in the early Universe in which the domain walls predicted by theories with discrete symmetries…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 H. Lew , A. Riotto

Domain walls represent two-dimensional topological defects that emerge from the spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries in various new physics models. In this study, we undertake the first calculation of gravitational waves produced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Bo-Qiang Lu

The origin of neutrino mass is a mystery, so is its nature, namely, whether neutrinos are Dirac or Majorana particles. On top of that, hints of large deviations of the muon and the electron anomalous magnetic moments (AMMs) are strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Talal Ahmed Chowdhury , Md. Ehsanuzzaman , Shaikh Saad

We present a gauged baryon number model as an example of models where all new fermions required to cancel out the anomalies help to solve phenomenological problems of the standard model (SM). Dark fermion doublets, along with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-19 Diego Restrepo , Andrés Rivera , Walter Tangarife

We show that if global lepton number symmetry is spontaneously broken in a post inflation epoch, then it can lead to the formation of cosmological domain walls. This happens in the well-known "Majoron paradigm" for neutrino mass generation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-17 George Lazarides , Mario Reig , Qaisar Shafi , Rahul Srivastava , José W. F. Valle

Assuming a type-I seesaw mechanism for neutrino mass generation and invoking a baryogengesis via leptogenesis scenario, we consider a reasonable hierarchical structure for Dirac neutrino mass matrix, similar to up-type quark mass matrix.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Franco Buccella , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Gennaro Miele , Stefano Morisi , Ofelia Pisanti , Pietro Santorelli

We study neutrino mass generation and dark matter in a left-right symmetric model. The model is based on an $SU(3)_c\times SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R \times U(1)_{B-L}$ gauge theory with a softly broken parity symmetry. Masses of the charged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-07 Shohei Okawa , Yuji Omura , Keyun Wu

The mechanism for generating neutrino masses remains a puzzle in particle physics. If neutrino masses follow from a Dirac mass term, then neutrino states exist with opposite chirality compared to their weakly-interacting counterparts. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 E. Grohs , A. B. Balantekin

Radiative Dirac neutrino masses and their mixing are linked to dark matter through the non-Abelian discrete symmetry $A_5$ of the 4-dimensional pentatope, softly broken to $A_4$ of the 3-dimensional tetrahedron. This unifying understanding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-20 Ernest Ma

Neutrinos may be the harbingers of new dark sectors, since the renormalizable neutrino portal allows for their interactions with hidden new physics. We propose here to use this fact to connect the generation of neutrino masses to a light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-06 Enrico Bertuzzo , Sudip Jana , Pedro A. N. Machado , Renata Zukanovich Funchal

We study the evolution of cosmological domain walls in models with asymmetric potentials. Our research goes beyond the standard case of spontaneous breaking of an approximate symmetry. When the symmetry is explicitly broken the potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Tomasz Krajewski , Jan Henryk Kwapisz , Zygmunt Lalak , Marek Lewicki

The spontaneous breaking of a discrete symmetry can lead to the formation of domain walls in the early Universe. In this work, we explore the impact of bias directions on the dynamics of $Z_N$ domain walls, mainly focusing on the $N = 3$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Yuan-Jie Li , Jing Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo

We formulate general conditions on $3\times 3$ neutrino mass matrices under which a degenerate pair of neutrinos at a high scale would split at low scale by radiative corrections involving only the standard model fields. This generalizes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Anjan S. Joshipura , Saurabh D. Rindani

We study a $U(1)_{B-L}$ extension of the Standard Model (SM) in which Dirac neutrino masses are generated radiatively at the one-loop level through the exchange of new beyond the SM fields. This framework establishes a direct connection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-28 Chayan Majumdar , Utkarsh Patel , Supriya Senapati , Sudhanwa Patra