%0 Journal Article
%T Dirac neutrinos and dark matter stability from lepton quarticity
%A Centelles Chulia, S.
%A Ma, E.
%A Srivastava, R.
%A Valle, J. W. F.
%J Physics Letters B
%D 2017
%V 767
%I Elsevier Science Bv
%@ 0370-2693
%G English
%F CentellesChulia_etal2017
%O WOS:000397861700032
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3024), last updated on Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:25:19 +0000
%X We propose to relate dark matter stability to the possible Dirac nature of neutrinos. The idea is illustrated in a simple scheme where small Dirac neutrino masses arise from a type-I seesaw mechanism as a result of a Z(4) discrete lepton number symmetry. The latter implies the existence of a viable WIMP dark matter candidate, whose stability arises from the same symmetry which ensures the Diracness of neutrinos.
%R 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.01.070
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04543
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.01.070
%P 209-213