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Two-loop Dirac neutrino mass and WIMP dark matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We propose a "scotogenic" mechanism relating small neutrino mass and cosmological dark matter. Neutrinos are Dirac fermions with masses arising only in two--loop order through the sector responsible for dark matter. Two triality symmetries ensure both dark matter stability and strict lepton number conservation at higher orders. A global spontaneously broken U(1) symmetry leads to a physical DiraconDiracon that induces invisible Higgs decays which add up to the Higgs to dark matter mode. This enhances sensitivities to spin-independent WIMP dark matter search below mh/2m_h/2.

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@article{arxiv.1607.03931,
  title  = {Two-loop Dirac neutrino mass and WIMP dark matter},
  author = {Cesar Bonilla and Ernest Ma and Eduardo Peinado and Jose W. F. Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.03931},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

11 pages, 3 figures; references added, Fig. 3 updated to include recent limits reported by LUX and PandaX. Version to appear in Phys. Lett. B

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