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Published on: November 15, 2013
Imprint of the Seesaw Mechanism on Feebly Interacting Dark Matter and the Baryon Asymmetry
Arghyajit Datta1, Rishav Roshan1, Arunansu Sil1
1Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam-781039, India.
Abstract:
We show that the type-I seesaw, responsible for generating the light neutrino mass, itself is capable of accommodating one of the three right handed neutrinos as a freeze-in type of dark matter where the required smallness of the associated coupling is connected to the lightness of the (smallest) active neutrino mass. It turns out that (a) the nonthermal production of dark matter having mass ≲O(1) MeV (via decays of W, Z bosons and standard model Higgs) consistent with relic density and (b) its stability determine this smallest active neutrino mass uniquely ∼O(10^{-12}) eV. On the other hand, the study of flavor leptogenesis in this scenario (taking into account the latest neutrino data and Higgs vacuum stability issue) fixes the scale of two other right handed neutrinos.
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