TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lattanzi, M.
AU  - Lineros, R. A.
AU  - Taoso, M.
PY  - 2014
DA  - 2014//
TI  - Connecting neutrino physics with dark matter
T2  - New J. Phys.
JO  - New Journal of Physics
SP  - 125012
EP  - 19pp
VL  - 16
PB  - Iop Publishing Ltd
KW  - neutrinos
KW  - dark matter
KW  - flavour
KW  - majoron
KW  - sterile neutrinos
AB  - The origin of neutrino masses and the nature of dark matter are two in most pressing open questions in modern astro-particle physics. We consider here the possibility that these two problems are related, and review some theoretical scenarios which offer common solutions. A simple possibility is that the dark matter particle emerges in minimal realizations of the seesaw mechanism, as in the majoron and sterile neutrino scenarios. We present the theoretical motivation for both models and discuss their phenomenology, confronting the predictions of these scenarios with cosmological and astrophysical observations. Finally, we discuss the possibility that the stability of dark matter originates from a flavor symmetry of the leptonic sector. We review a proposal based on an A(4) flavor symmetry.
SN  - 1367-2630
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0004
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/12/125012
DO  - 10.1088/1367-2630/16/12/125012
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000346823200001
ID  - Lattanzi_etal2014
ER  -