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Warm Dark Matter in Two Higgs Doublet Models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-06 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We show that a neutral scalar field, \sigma, of two Higgs doublet extensions of the Standard Model incorporating the seesaw mechanism for neutrino masses can be identified as a consistent {\it warm} dark matter candidate with a mass of order keV. The relic density of σ\sigma is correctly reproduced by virtue of the late decay of a right-handed neutrino N participating in the seesaw mechanism. Constraints from cosmology determine the mass and lifetime of N to be M_N = 25 GeV - 20 TeV and \tau_N = (10^{-4} - 1) sec. These models can also explain the 3.5 keV X-ray anomaly in the extra-galactic spectrum that has been recently reported in terms of the decay \sigma \to \gamma \gamma. Future tests of these models at colliders and in astrophysical settings are outlined.

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@article{arxiv.1412.7745,
  title  = {Warm Dark Matter in Two Higgs Doublet Models},
  author = {K. S. Babu and Shreyashi Chakdar and Rabindra N. Mohapatra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.7745},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 3 figures

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