TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hirsch, M.
AU  - Morisi, S.
AU  - Peinado, E.
AU  - Valle, J. W. F.
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2010//
TI  - Discrete dark matter
T2  - Phys. Rev. D
JO  - Physical Review D
SP  - 116003
EP  - 5pp
VL  - 82
IS  - 11
PB  - Amer Physical Soc
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.
SN  - 1550-7998
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0871
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.116003
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.116003
LA  - English
N1  - ISI:000286565700007
ID  - Hirsch_etal2010
ER  -