Discrete dark matter with light Dirac neutrinos

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Autori principali: Borah, Debasish, Das, Pritam, Karmakar, Biswajit, Mahapatra, Satyabrata
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Borah, Debasish
Das, Pritam
Karmakar, Biswajit
Mahapatra, Satyabrata
author_facet Borah, Debasish
Das, Pritam
Karmakar, Biswajit
Mahapatra, Satyabrata
contents We propose a new realisation of light Dirac neutrino mass and dark matter (DM) within the framework of a non-Abelian discrete flavour symmetry based on $A_4$ group. In addition to $A_4$, we also consider a $Z_2$ and an unbroken global lepton number symmetry $U(1)_L$ to keep unwanted terms away while guaranteeing the Dirac nature of light neutrinos. The field content, their transformations and flavon vacuum alignments are chosen in such a way that the type-I Dirac seesaw generates only one light Dirac neutrino mass while the other two masses arise from scotogenic contributions at one-loop. This leads to the Dirac scoto-seesaw framework, a generalisation of the widely studied scoto-seesaw model to Dirac neutrinos. The symmetry breaking of $A_4$ leaves a remnant $\mathcal{Z}_2$ symmetry responsible for stabilising DM. Dirac nature of light neutrinos introduces additional relativistic degrees of freedom $ΔN_{\rm eff}$ within reach of cosmic microwave background experiments.
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spellingShingle Discrete dark matter with light Dirac neutrinos
Borah, Debasish
Das, Pritam
Karmakar, Biswajit
Mahapatra, Satyabrata
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We propose a new realisation of light Dirac neutrino mass and dark matter (DM) within the framework of a non-Abelian discrete flavour symmetry based on $A_4$ group. In addition to $A_4$, we also consider a $Z_2$ and an unbroken global lepton number symmetry $U(1)_L$ to keep unwanted terms away while guaranteeing the Dirac nature of light neutrinos. The field content, their transformations and flavon vacuum alignments are chosen in such a way that the type-I Dirac seesaw generates only one light Dirac neutrino mass while the other two masses arise from scotogenic contributions at one-loop. This leads to the Dirac scoto-seesaw framework, a generalisation of the widely studied scoto-seesaw model to Dirac neutrinos. The symmetry breaking of $A_4$ leaves a remnant $\mathcal{Z}_2$ symmetry responsible for stabilising DM. Dirac nature of light neutrinos introduces additional relativistic degrees of freedom $ΔN_{\rm eff}$ within reach of cosmic microwave background experiments.
title Discrete dark matter with light Dirac neutrinos
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17861