25–28 Sept 2012
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

From Dirac neutrino masses to baryonic and dark matter asymmetries

27 Sept 2012, 15:00
20m
Seminar room 2 (DESY)

Seminar room 2

DESY

Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics Parallel Session 2: Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics

Speaker

Dr Peihong GU (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany)

Description

In this talk I will introduce a unified picture of Dirac neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry and dark matter relic density. Specifically, we consider an $SU(3)'_c\times SU(2)'_L\times U(1)'_Y$ dark sector, parallel to the $SU(3)_c\times SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y$ ordinary sector. The hypercharges, baryon numbers and lepton numbers in the dark sector are opposite to those in the ordinary sector. We further introduce three types of messenger sectors: (i) two or more gauge-singlet Dirac fermions, (ii) two or more $[SU(2)_L\times SU(2)'_L]$-bidoublet Higgs scalars, (iii) at least one gauge-singlet Dirac fermion and at least one $[SU(2)_L\times SU(2)'_L]$-bidoublet Higgs scalar. The lepton number conserving decays of the heavy fermion singlet(s) and/or Higgs bidoublet(s) can simultaneously generate a lepton asymmetry in the $[SU(2)_L]$-doublet leptons and an opposite lepton asymmetry in the $[SU(2)'_L]$-doublet leptons to account for the cosmological baryon asymmetry and dark matter relic density, respectively. The dark proton and/or neutron as the dark matter particle thus should have a mass about $5\,\textrm{GeV}$. By integrating out the heavy fermion singlet(s) and/or Higgs bidoublet(s), we can obtain three light Dirac neutrinos composed of the ordinary and dark left-handed neutrinos. If a mirror symmetry is further imposed, our models will not require more parameters than the traditional type-I, type-II or type-I+II seesaw models.

Primary author

Dr Peihong GU (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany)

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