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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 91, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.075001
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- Spanish MICINN's Consolider-Ingenio Programme [CSD2009-00064, FPA2010-17747]
- France-U.S. PICS [06482]
- Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics (MITP)
- European Union FP7 ITN INVISIBLES (Marie Curie Actions) [PITN-GA-2011-289442]
- ERC advanced grants Higgs@LHC
- DOE at the University of Minnesota [DE-SC0011842]
- ERC advanced grants MassTeV
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We study a minimal extension of the Standard Model where a scalar field is coupled to the right-handed neutrino responsible for the seesaw mechanism for neutrino masses. In the absence of other couplings, below 8 TeV the scalar A has a unique decay mode A -> nu nu,nu being the physical observed light neutrino state. Above 8 TeV (11 TeV), the 3-body (4-body) decay modes dominate. Imposing constraints on neutrino masses m(nu) from atmospheric and solar experiments implies a long lifetime for A, much larger than the age of the Universe, making it a natural dark matter candidate. Its lifetime can be as large as 10(29) seconds, and its signature below 8 TeV would be a clear monochromatic neutrino signal, which can be observed by ANTARES or IceCube. Under certain conditions, the scalar A may be viewed as a Goldstone mode of a complex scalar field whose vacuum expectation value generates the Majorana mass for nu(R). In this case, we expect the dark matter scalar to have a mass less than or similar to 10 GeV.
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