PT Journal
AU Hirsch, M
   Morisi, S
   Peinado, E
   Valle, JWF
TI Discrete dark matter
SO Physical Review D
JI Phys. Rev. D
PY 2010
BP 116003
EP 5pp
VL 82
IS 11
DI 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.116003
LA English
AB We propose a new motivation for the stability of dark matter (DM). We suggest that the same non-Abelian discrete flavor symmetry which accounts for the observed pattern of neutrino oscillations, spontaneously breaks to a Z(2) subgroup which renders DM stable. The simplest scheme leads to a scalar doublet DM potentially detectable in nuclear recoil experiments, inverse neutrino mass hierarchy, hence a neutrinoless double beta decay rate accessible to upcoming searches, while theta(13) = 0 gives no CP violation in neutrino oscillations.
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