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The Majoron, the Nambu-Goldstone boson of lepton number symmetry, is an interesting candidate for dark matter as it deeply connects the dark matter and neutrino physics. In this paper, we consider the Majoron dark matter as pseudo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Yoshihiko Abe , Yu Hamada , Takahiro Ohata , Kenta Suzuki , Koichi Yoshioka

A novel model of spontaneous Leptogenesis is investigated, where it takes place in the thermal equilibrium due to a background Nambu-Goldstone field in motion. In particular, we identify the Nambu-Goldstone field to be the Majoron which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-02 Masahiro Ibe , Kunio Kaneta

We show that Majoron, the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson resulting from the spontaneous breaking of global lepton number symmetry, can present itself as a viable freeze-in type of dark matter in a mass range keV-GeV, thanks to the explicit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-11 Soumen Kumar Manna , Arunansu Sil

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

The majoron is a well-motivated light (pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone) boson associated with the spontaneous breaking of a global lepton-number symmetry. In this {\it letter}, we relate the spontaneous breaking scale and its soft-breaking mass by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-28 Qiuyue Liang , Xavier Ponce Díaz , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

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

The Majoron is a hypothetical (pseudo) Nambu-Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of a global lepton number symmetry, and is known as a candidate for dark matter in our Universe. In this paper, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Ippei Obata , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

The spontaneous breaking of a global lepton number symmetry can result in a (pseudo) Nambu-Goldstone boson known as the Majoron. We study a singlet Majoron model that couples to two Higgs doublets in which the lepton number current develops…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-27 Yifan Lu , Zachary S. C. Picker , Alexander Kusenko , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Majorons are (pseudo-)Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with lepton number symmetry breaking due to the Majorana mass term of neutrinos introduced in the seesaw mechanism. They are good dark matter candidates since their lifetime is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Kensuke Akita , Michiru Niibo

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 review the recent proposal by Lattanzi & Valle of the majoron as a suitable warm dark matter candidate. The majoron is the Goldstone boson associated to the spontaneous breaking of ungauged lepton number, one of the mechanisms proposed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-04 Massimiliano Lattanzi

We propose a resonant leptogenesis scenario in a U(1)_{B-L} gauge extension of the standard model to generate large lepton asymmetries for cosmological baryon asymmetry and dark matter. After B-L number is spontaneously broken, inflaton can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-09 Pei-Hong Gu

The seesaw mechanism with three heavy Majorana right-handed neutrinos provides an elegant explanation for neutrino masses and, combined with leptogenesis, can generate the baryon asymmetry of the universe (BAU). Naturally embedded in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-06 Juan Herrero-Garcia , Giacomo Landini , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

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 consider theories in which the generation of neutrino masses is associated with the breaking of an approximate global lepton number symmetry. In such a scenario the spectrum of light states includes the Majoron, the pseudo-Nambu…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Zackaria Chacko , Peizhi Du , Michael Geller

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 provides an attractive dark matter candidate, directly associated to the mechanism responsible for spontaneous neutrino mass generation within the standard model framework. Here we update the cosmological and astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-26 Massimiliano Lattanzi , Signe Riemer-Sorensen , Mariam Tortola , Jose W. F. Valle

We study the viability of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons (Majorons) arising in see-saw models as dark matter candidates. Interestingly the stability of the Majoron as dark matter is related to the scale that sets the see-saw and leptogenesis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-20 Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Kuver Sinha

We propose a novel leptogenesis scenario in the gauged $U(1)_{L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}}$ model. Achieving successful leptogenesis in the $U(1)_{L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}}$ symmetric phase is challenging due to the absence of a CP phase, caused by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-14 Juntaro Wada

We study the possibility of testing a dark matter (DM) scenario embedded in a global lepton number symmetry $U(1)_L$ via gravitational waves (GW) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. The spontaneous breaking of $U(1)_L$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-14 Debasish Borah , Nayan Das , Rishav Roshan
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