Three-loop inverse scotogenic seesaw models

We propose a class of models providing an explanation of the origin of light neutrino masses, the baryon asymmetry of the Universe via leptogenesis and offering viable dark matter candidates. In these models the Majorana masses of the active neutrino are generated by the inverse seesaw mechanism with the lepton number violating right-handed Majorana neutrino masses μ arising at three loops. The latter is ensured by the preserved discrete symmetries, which also guarantee the stability of the dark matter candidate. We focus on one of these models and perform a detailed analysis of the phenomenology of its leptonic sector. The model can successfully accommodate baryogenesis through leptogenesis in both weak and strong washout regimes. The lightest heavy fermion turns out to be a viable dark matter candidate, provided that the entries of the Majorana submatrix μ are in the keV to MeV range. The solutions are consistent with the experimental constraints, accommodating both mass orderings for active neutrinos, in particular charged-lepton flavor violating decays μ → eγ, μ → eee, and the electron-muon conversion processes get sizable rates within future sensitivity reach.

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Keywords

Lepton Flavour Violation (charged), Models for Dark Matter, Other Weak Scale BSM Models, Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos

Citation

Journal of High Energy Physics Open Access Volume 2024, Issue 5 May 2024 Article number 35

DOI

10.1007/JHEP05(2024)035

URI

https://repositorio.unab.cl/handle/ria/57129

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