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Miro, C.; Escudero, M.; Nebot, M. |
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How large could the CP violation in neutral B-meson mixing be? Implications for baryogenesis and upcoming searches |
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Journal Article |
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2024 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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110 |
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11 |
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115033 - 29pp |
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CP violation in neutral B meson oscillations is an experimental observable that could be directly related to the baryon asymmetry of the Universe through the B-mesogenesis mechanism. As this phenomenon is highly suppressed in the Standard Model, it could also be a sensitive probe for many new physics scenarios that modify neutral meson mixing. Motivated by these facts, and the timely B physics program at the LHC and Belle II, we analyze how large CP violation in the mixing of neutral Bd and Bs meson systems could be. We answer this question, in light of current experimental data, within three different scenarios, namely: (i) generic heavy new physics only affecting the mass mixing Mq12, (ii) vectorlike quark extensions that introduce deviations of 3 x 3 CKM unitarity, and (iii) light new physics modifying the decay mixing Gamma q12. We find that enhancements of the semileptonic asymmetries, that measure the amount of CP violation in mixing, at the level of 10-3 for the Bd system and 10-4 for the Bs system can be achieved within scenarios (i) and (ii), while they are much more suppressed in realistic UV completions triggering scenario (iii). With respect to cosmology, the difficulty of finding large CP asymmetries in our analysis puts the B-mesogenesis mechanism in tension. Finally, we conclude that upcoming experimental searches for CP violation in B meson mixing at LHCb and Belle II are unlikely to detect a new physics signal for the most generic models. |
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[Miro, Carlos; Nebot, Miguel] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, E-46100 Valencia, Spain, Email: carlos.miro@uv.es; |
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WOS:001400806000006 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Gariazzo, S.; Escudero, M.; Diamanti, R.; Mena, O. |
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Cosmological searches for a noncold dark matter component |
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Journal Article |
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2017 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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96 |
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4 |
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043501 - 11pp |
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We explore an extended cosmological scenario where the dark matter is an admixture of cold and additional noncold species. The mass and temperature of the noncold dark matter particles are extracted from a number of cosmological measurements. Among others, we consider tomographic weak lensing data and Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxy counts. We also study the potential of these scenarios in alleviating the existing tensions between local measurements and cosmic microwave background ( CMB) estimates of the S-8 parameter, with S-8 = sigma(8)root Omega(m), and of the Hubble constant H-0. In principle, a subdominant, noncold dark matter particle with a mass m(X) similar to keV, could achieve the goals above. However, the preferred ranges for its temperature and its mass are different when extracted from weak lensing observations and from Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxy counts, since these two measurements require suppressions of the matter power spectrum at different scales. Therefore, solving simultaneously the CMB-weak lensing tensions and the small scale crisis in the standard cold dark matter picture via only one noncold dark matter component seems to be challenging. |
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[Gariazzo, Stefano; Escudero, Miguel; Mena, Olga] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, Apartado Correos 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain |
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WOS:000406911700001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3236 |
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Elor, G.; Escudero, M.; Nelson, A.E. |
Title |
Baryogenesis and dark matter from B mesons |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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99 |
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3 |
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035031 - 18pp |
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We present a new mechanism of baryogenesis and dark matter production in which both the dark matter relic abundance and the baryon asymmetry arise from neutral B meson oscillations and subsequent decays. This setup is testable at hadron colliders and B factories. In the early universe, decays of a long lived particle produce B mesons and antimesons out of thermal equilibrium. These mesons/antimesons then undergo CP violating oscillations before quickly decaying into visible and dark sector particles. Dark matter will be charged under the baryon number so that the visible sector baryon asymmetry is produced without violating the total baryon number of the Universe. The produced baryon asymmetry will be directly related to the leptonic charge asymmetry in neutral B decays: an experimental observable. Dark matter is stabilized by an unbroken discrete symmetry, and proton decay is simply evaded by kinematics. We will illustrate this mechanism with a model that is unconstrained by dinucleon decay, does not require a high reheat temperature, and would have unique experimental signals-a positive leptonic asymmetry in B meson decays, a new decay of B mesons into a baryon and missing energy, and a new decay of b-flavored baryons into mesons and missing energy. These three observables are testable at current and upcoming collider experiments, allowing for a distinct probe of this mechanism. |
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[Elor, Gilly; Nelson, Ann E.] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Box 1560, Seattle, WA 98195 USA, Email: gelor@uw.edu; |
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WOS:000459208700015 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3916 |
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Sandner, S.; Escudero, M.; Witte, S.J. |
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Precision CMB constraints on eV-scale bosons coupled to neutrinos |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2023 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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83 |
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8 |
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709 - 12pp |
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The cosmic microwave background (CMB) has proven to be an invaluable tool for studying the properties and interactions of neutrinos, providing insight not only into the sum of neutrino masses but also the free streaming nature of neutrinos prior to recombination. The CMB is a particularly powerful probe of new eV-scale bosons interacting with neutrinos, as these particles can thermalizewith neutrinos via the inverse decay process, v (v) over bar -> X, and suppress neutrino free streaming near recombination – even for couplings as small as lambda(v) similar to O(10(-13)). Here, we revisit CMB constraints on such bosons, improving upon a number of approximations previously adopted in the literature and generalizing the constraints to a broader class of models. This includes scenarios in which the boson is either spin-0 or spin-1, the number of interacting neutrinos is either N-int = 1, 2 or 3, and the case in which a primordial abundance of the species is present. We apply these bounds to well-motivatedmodels, such as the singlet majoron model or a light U(1) L-mu- L-t gauge boson, and find that they represent the leading constraints for masses m(X) similar to 1 eV. Finally, we revisit the extent to which neutrinophilic bosons can ameliorate the Hubble tension, and find that recent improvements in the understanding of how such bosons damp neutrino free streaming reduces the previously found success of this proposal. |
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[Sandner, Stefan] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Edificio Inst Invest,Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, Paterna 46980, Spain, Email: stefan.sandner@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:001045200700001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5608 |
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Escudero, M.; Rius, N.; Sanz, V. |
Title |
Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter II: exact dark symmetry |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2017 |
Publication |
European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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77 |
Issue |
6 |
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397 - 11pp |
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We analyze a simple extension of the standard model (SM) with a dark sector composed of a scalar and a fermion, both singlets under the SM gauge group but charged under a dark sector symmetry group. Sterile neutrinos, which are singlets under both groups, mediate the interactions between the dark sector and the SM particles, and generate masses for the active neutrinos via the seesaw mechanism. We explore the parameter space region where the observed Dark Matter relic abundance is determined by the annihilation into sterile neutrinos, both for fermion and scalar Dark Matter particles. The scalar Dark Matter case provides an interesting alternative to the usual Higgs portal scenario. We also study the constraints from direct Dark Matter searches and the prospects for indirect detection via sterile neutrino decays to leptons, which may be able to rule out Dark Matter masses below and around 100 GeV. |
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[Escudero, Miguel; Rius, Nuria] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, Paterna 46980, Spain, Email: miguel.escudero@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000403504200002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3171 |
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Escudero, M.; Witte, S.J. |
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A CMB search for the neutrino mass mechanism and its relation to the Hubble tension |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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80 |
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4 |
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294 - 10pp |
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The majoron, a pseudo-Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of global lepton number, is a generic feature of many models intended to explain the origin of the small neutrino masses. In this work, we investigate potential imprints in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) arising from massive majorons, should they thermalize with neutrinos after Big Bang Nucleosynthesis via inverse neutrino decays. We show that Planck2018 measurements of the CMB are currently sensitive to neutrino-majoron couplings as small as lambda similar to 10-13, which if interpreted in the context of the type-I seesaw mechanism correspond to a lepton number symmetry breaking scale vL similar to O(100)GeV Additionally, we identify parameter space for which the majoron-neutrino interactions, collectively with an extra contribution to the effective number of relativistic species Neff, can ameliorate the outstanding H0 tension. |
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[Escudero, Miguel] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, London WC2R 2LS, England, Email: miguel.escudero@kcl.ac.uk; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Escudero, M.; Witte, S.J.; Rius, N. |
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The dispirited case of gauged U(1)(B-L) dark matter |
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2018 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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08 |
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8 |
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190 - 30pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM |
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We explore the constraints and phenomenology of possibly the simplest scenario that could account at the same time for the active neutrino masses and the dark matter in the Universe within a gauged U(1)(B-L) symmetry, namely right-handed neutrino dark matter. We find that null searches from lepton and hadron colliders require dark matter with a mass below 900 GeV to annihilate through a resonance. Additionally, the very strong constraints from high-energy dilepton searches fully exclude the model for 150 GeV < m(z') < 3 TeV. We further explore the phenomenology in the high mass region (i.e. masses greater than or similar to O(1) TeV) and highlight theoretical arguments, related to the appearance of a Landau pole or an instability of the scalar potential, disfavoring large portions of this parameter space. Collectively, these considerations illustrate that a minimal extension of the Standard Model via a local U(1)(B-L) symmetry with a viable thermal dark matter candidate is difficult to achieve without fine-tuning. We conclude by discussing possible extensions of the model that relieve tension with collider constraints by reducing the gauge coupling required to produce the correct relic abundance. |
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[Escudero, Miguel] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Spain, Email: Miguel.Escudero@ific.uv.es; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Escudero, M.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Rius, N.; Sandner, S. |
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Relaxing cosmological neutrino mass bounds with unstable neutrinos |
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2020 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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12 |
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12 |
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119 - 44pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Neutrino Physics |
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At present, cosmological observations set the most stringent bound on the neutrino mass scale. Within the standard cosmological model (Lambda CDM), the Planck collaboration reports Sigma m(v)< 0.12 eV at 95 % CL. This bound, taken at face value, excludes many neutrino mass models. However, unstable neutrinos, with lifetimes shorter than the age of the universe <tau>(nu) less than or similar to t(U), represent a particle physics avenue to relax this constraint. Motivated by this fact, we present a taxonomy of neutrino decay modes, categorizing them in terms of particle content and final decay products. Taking into account the relevant phenomenological bounds, our analysis shows that 2-body decaying neutrinos into BSM particles are a promising option to relax cosmological neutrino mass bounds. We then build a simple extension of the type I seesaw scenario by adding one sterile state nu (4) and a Goldstone boson phi, in which nu (i)-> nu (4)phi decays can loosen the neutrino mass bounds up to Sigma m(v) similar to 1 eV, without spoiling the light neutrino mass generation mechanism. Remarkably, this is possible for a large range of the right-handed neutrino masses, from the electroweak up to the GUT scale. We successfully implement this idea in the context of minimal neutrino mass models based on a U(1)(mu-tau) flavor symmetry, which are otherwise in tension with the current bound on Sigma m(v). |
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[Escudero, Miguel] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle Phys & Cosmol Grp, London WC2R 2LS, England, Email: miguel.escudero@kcl.ac.uk; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Escudero, M.; Hooper, D.; Krnjaic, G.; Pierre, M. |
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Cosmology with a very light Lmu – Ltau gauge boson |
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2019 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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03 |
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3 |
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071 - 29pp |
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Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
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In this paper, we explore in detail the cosmological implications of an abelian L – L gauge extension of the Standard Model featuring a light and weakly coupled Z. Such a scenario is motivated by the longstanding approximate to 4 sigma discrepancy between the measured and predicted values of the muon's anomalous magnetic moment, (g – 2), as well as the tension between late and early time determinations of the Hubble constant. If sufficiently light, the Z population will decay to neutrinos, increasing the overall energy density of radiation and altering the expansion history of the early universe. We identify two distinct regions of parameter space in this model in which the Hubble tension can be significantly relaxed. The first of these is the previously identified region in which a approximate to 10 – 20 MeV Z reaches equilibrium in the early universe and then decays, heating the neutrino population and delaying the process of neutrino decoupling. For a coupling of g (-) similar or equal to (3 – 8) x 10(-4), such a particle can also explain the observed (g – 2) anomaly. In the second region, the Z is very light (mZ approximate to 1eV to MeV) and very weakly coupled (g (-) approximate to 10(-13) to 10(-9)). In this case, the Z population is produced through freeze-in, and decays to neutrinos after neutrino decoupling. Across large regions of parameter space, we predict a contribution to the energy density of radiation that can appreciably relax the reported Hubble tension, N-eff similar or equal to 0.2. |
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[Escudero, Miguel] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, London WC2R 2LS, England, Email: miguel.escudero@kcl.ac.uk; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Escudero, M.; Rius, N.; Sanz, V. |
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Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter I: the U(1)(B-L) case |
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2017 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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02 |
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2 |
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045 - 27pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
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In this paper we explore the possibility that the sterile neutrino and Dark Matter sectors in the Universe have a common origin. We study the consequences of this assumption in the simple case of coupling the dark sector to the Standard Model via a global U(1)(B-L), broken down spontaneously by a dark scalar. This dark scalar provides masses to the dark fermions and communicates with the Higgs via a Higgs portal coupling. We find an interesting interplay between Dark Matter annihilation to dark scalars – the CP-even that mixes with the Higgs and the CP-odd which becomes a Goldstone boson, the Majoron and heavy neutrinos, as well as collider probes via the coupling to the Higgs. Moreover, Dark Matter annihilation into sterile neutrinos and its subsequent decay to gauge bosons and quarks, charged leptons or neutrinos lead to indirect detection signatures which are close to current bounds on the gamma ray flux from the galactic center and dwarf galaxies. |
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[Escudero, Miguel; Rius, Nuria] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Spain, Email: miguel.escudero@ific.uv.es; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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