Monday, July 16, 2012

1207.3250 (Lorenzo Basso et al.)

A natural $Z'$ model with inverse seesaw and leptonic dark matter    [PDF]

Lorenzo Basso, Oliver Fischer, J. J. van der Bij
We consider a model for a Z'-boson coupled only to B-L and hypercharge. Besides the usual right-handed neutrinos, we add a pair of fermions with a fractional lepton charge, which we therefore call leptinos. One of the leptinos is taken to be odd under an additional Z_2 charge, the other even. This allows for a natural (inverse) seesaw mechanism for neutrino masses. The odd leptino is a candidate for dark matter, but has to be resonantly annihilated by the Z'-boson or the Higgs-boson responsible for giving mass to the former. Considering collider and cosmological bounds on the model, we find that the Z'-boson and/or the extra Higgs-boson can be seen at the LHC. With more pairs of leptinos leptogenesis is possible.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3250

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