Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/08/013
Keywords
dark matter; neutrino properties; high energy photons; cosmology of theories beyond the SM
Funding
- MEC [FPA2005-01269]
- EC [MRTN-CT-2004-503369, ILIAS/N6 RII3-CT-2004-506222]
- Danish National Research Foundation
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An attractive way to generate neutrino masses as required to account for current neutrino oscillation data involves the spontaneous breaking of lepton number. The resulting majoron may pick up a mass due to gravity. If its mass lies in the kilovolt scale, the majoron can play the role of late-decaying dark matter (LDDM), decaying mainly to neutrinos. In general the majoron has also a sub-dominant decay to two photons leading to a mono-energetic emission line which can be used as a test of the LDDM scenario. We compare expected photon emission rates with observations in order to obtain model-independent restrictions on the relevant parameters. We also illustrate the resulting sensitivities within an explicit seesaw realization, where the majoron couples to photons due to the presence of a Higgs triplet.
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