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Leptogenesis with Majoron Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-04-28 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

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 Z2Z_2 symmetry. We show that the resulting Majoron is a viable freeze-in dark matter candidate. Two right-handed neutrinos are assumed to have dominant off-diagonal masses suggesting resonant leptogenesis as the origin of baryon asymmetry of the Universe. Explicit higher dimensional lepton number violating operators, are shown to play a crucial role in simultaneously controlling both the Majoron production in the early Universe and the right handed neutrino mass splitting relevant for resonant leptogenesis. We perform a combined analysis of Majoron dark matter and leptogenesis, discussing the relative importance of self energy and vertex contributions to CP asymmetry, and explore the parameter space, leading to an intricate relation between neutrino mass, dark matter and baryon asymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2412.14121,
  title  = {Leptogenesis with Majoron Dark Matter},
  author = {Stephen F. King and Soumen Kumar Manna and Rishav Roshan and Arunansu Sil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14121},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

13 pages, 10 figures and 2 tables, Version accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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