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# Dark matter in the Type Ib seesaw model

Chianese, Marco, Fu, Bowen and King, Stephen F. (2021) Dark matter in the Type Ib seesaw model. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 (5), [129].

Record type: Article

## Abstract

We consider a minimal type Ib seesaw model where the effective neutrino mass operator involves two different Higgs doublets, and the two right-handed neutrinos form a heavy Dirac mass. We propose a minimal dark matter extension of this model, in which the Dirac heavy neutrino is coupled to a dark Dirac fermion and a dark complex scalar field, both charged under a discrete $Z_2$ symmetry, where the lighter of the two is a dark matter candidate. Focussing on the fermionic dark matter case, we explore the parameter space of the seesaw Yukawa couplings, the neutrino portal couplings and dark scalar to dark fermion mass ratio, where correct dark matter relic abundance can be produced by the freeze-in mechanism. By considering the mixing between between the standard model neutrinos and the heavy neutrino, we build a connection between the dark matter production and current laboratory experiments ranging from collider to lepton flavour violating experiments. For a GeV mass heavy neutrino, the parameters related to dark matter production are constrained by the experimental results directly and can be further tested by future experiments such as SHiP.

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2102.07780v2 - Version of Record

Published date: May 2021
Keywords: Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM, Neutrino Physics

## Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 452802
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/452802
ORCID for Bowen Fu: orcid.org/0000-0003-2270-8352

## Catalogue record

Date deposited: 20 Dec 2021 17:56

## Contributors

Author: Marco Chianese
Author: Bowen Fu
Author: Stephen F. King