21–24 Oct 2019
IFT (Madrid)
Europe/Madrid timezone

Leptogenesis in the Scotogenic model

23 Oct 2019, 14:55
20m
Grey Room 2 (IFT)

Grey Room 2

IFT

Speaker

Vedran Brdar (MPIK Heidelberg)

Description

In this talk we consider the scenario in which the Standard model is augmented by three generations of right-handed neutrinos and a scalar doublet. The newly introduced fields share an odd charge under a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ parity symmetry. We present a scenario in which the dark matter particle is at the keV-scale. Such particle is free from X-ray limits due to the unbroken parity symmetry that forbids the mixing between active and right-handed neutrinos. The active neutrino masses are radiatively generated from the new scalars and the two heavier right-handed states with $\sim \mathcal{O}(100)$ GeV masses. We demonstrate how these heavy fermions can also produce the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe through the combination of Akhmedov-Rubakov-Smirnov mechanism and recently proposed scalar decays. We identify the parameter space where the successful leptogenesis is compatible with the observed abundance of dark matter as well as the measurements from the neutrino oscillation experiments.

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