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hep-ph2015★ 49 cited

Decoherence and oscillations of supernova neutrinos

Joern Kersten, Alexei Yu. Smirnov

Supernova neutrinos have several exceptional features which can lead to interesting physical consequences. At the production point their wave packets have an extremely small size $…

hep-ph2015★ 105 cited

Quark Seesaw, Vectorlike Fermions and Diphoton Excess

P. S. Bhupal Dev, Rabindra N. Mohapatra, Yongchao Zhang

We present a possible interpretation of the recent diphoton excess reported by the TeV LHC data in quark seesaw left-right models with vectorlike fermions proposed to…

hep-ph2015★ 66 cited

Di-photon Excess Explained by a Resonant Sneutrino in R-parity Violating Supersymmetry

B. C. Allanach, P. S. Bhupal Dev, S. A. Renner +1

We explain the recent excess seen by ATLAS and CMS experiments at around 750 GeV in the di-photon invariant mass as a narrow width sneutrino decaying to di-photons via a stau loop…

hep-ph2015★ 79 cited

Asymmetric Dark Matter in the Sun and the Diphoton Excess at the LHC

P. S. Bhupal Dev, Daniele Teresi

It has been recently pointed out that a momentum-dependent coupling of the asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) with nucleons can explain the broad disagreement between helioseismological…

hep-ph2015★ 53 cited

The Scalar Triplet Contribution to Lepton Flavour Violation and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Left-Right Symmetric Model

Gulab Bambhaniya, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Srubabati Goswami +1

We analyse in detail the scalar triplet contribution to the low-energy lepton flavour violating (LFV) and lepton number violating (LNV) processes within a TeV-scale left-right symm…

hep-ph2015★ 17 cited

Electroweak Absolute, Meta-, and Thermal Stability in Neutrino Mass Models

Manfred Lindner, Hiren H. Patel, Branimir Radovčić

We analyze the stability of the electroweak vacuum in neutrino mass models containing right handed neutrinos or fermionic isotriplets. In addition to considering absolute stability…

hep-ph2015★ 55 cited

The CTA aims at the Inert Doublet Model

Farinaldo S. Queiroz, Carlos E. Yaguna

We show that the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) can realistically challenge the Inert Doublet Model, excluding its heavy regime up to dark matter masses of 800 GeV and probing a l…

hep-ph2015★ 43 cited

Singlet-Doublet Dirac Dark Matter

Carlos E. Yaguna

We analyze a simple extension of the Standard Model where the dark matter particle is a Dirac fermion that is mixture of a singlet and an SU(2) doublet. The model contains only fou…

hep-ph2015★ 15 cited

Discrete symmetries and mixing of Dirac neutrinos

Arman Esmaili, Alexei Yu. Smirnov

We study mixing of the Dirac neutrinos in the residual symmetries approach. The key difference from the Majorana case is that the Dirac mass matrix may have larger symmetries: $G_ν…

hep-ph2015★ 19 cited

Gamma-Ray Excess and the Minimal Dark Matter Model

Michael Duerr, Pavel Fileviez Perez, Juri Smirnov

We point out that the gamma-ray excesses in the galactic center and in the dwarf galaxy Reticulum II can both be well explained within the simplest dark matter model. We find that…

hep-ph2015★ 28 cited

Sterile neutrinos in the light of IceCube

Manfred Lindner, Werner Rodejohann, Xun-Jie Xu

We determine constraints on parameters of a single eV-scale light neutrino using IceCube-59 data. Particular emphasis is put on the question whether such an analysis can rule out s…

hep-ph2015★ 78 cited

New Limits on the Dark Matter Lifetime from Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies using Fermi-LAT

Matthew G. Baring, Tathagata Ghosh, Farinaldo S. Queiroz +1

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are promising targets for the indirect detection of dark matter through gamma-ray emission due to their proximity, lack of astrophysical backgroun…

hep-ph2015★ 64 cited

Scalar dark matter in the B-L model

Werner Rodejohann, Carlos E. Yaguna

The B-L extension of the Standard Model requires the existence of right-handed neutrinos and naturally realizes the seesaw mechanism of neutrino mass generation. We study the possi…

hep-ph2015★ 19 cited

A left-right symmetric flavor symmetry model

Werner Rodejohann, Xun-Jie Xu

We discuss flavor symmetries in left-right symmetric theories. We show that such frameworks are a different environment for flavor symmetry model building compared to the usually c…

hep-ph2015★ 43 cited

Scalar Dark Matter: Direct vs. Indirect Detection

Michael Duerr, Pavel Fileviez Perez, Juri Smirnov

We revisit the simplest model for dark matter. In this context the dark matter candidate is a real scalar field which interacts with the Standard Model particles through the Higgs…

hep-ph2015★ 9 cited

Lepton mixing from the hidden sector

P. O. Ludl, A. Yu. Smirnov

Experimental results indicate a possible relation between the lepton and quark mixing matrices of the form U_PMNS \approx V_CKM^\dagger U_X, where U_X is a matrix with special stru…

hep-ph2015★ 14 cited

New physics effects on neutrinoless double beta decay from right-handed current

Shao-Feng Ge, Manfred Lindner, Sudhanwa Patra

We study the impact of new physics contributions to neutrinoless double beta decay arising from right-handed current in comparison with the standard mechanism. If the light neutrin…

hep-ph2015★ 5 cited

Robustness of Neutrino Mass Matrix Predictions

Werner Rodejohann, Xun-Jie Xu

We investigate the stability of neutrino mass matrix predictions on important and currently unknown observables. Those are the octant of , the sign of and the neutr…

hep-ph2015★ 113 cited

Dark Matter and Global Symmetries

Yann Mambrini, Stefano Profumo, Farinaldo S. Queiroz

General considerations in general relativity and quantum mechanics are known to potentially rule out continuous global symmetries in the context of any consistent theory of quantum…

hep-ph2015★ 61 cited

Reconciling the 2 TeV Excesses at the LHC in a Linear Seesaw Left-Right Model

Frank F. Deppisch, Lukas Graf, Suchita Kulkarni +4

We interpret the 2 TeV excesses at the LHC in a left-right symmetric model with Higgs doublets and spontaneous -parity violation. The light neutrino masses are understood via a…

hep-ph2015★ 41 cited

Scalar Singlet Dark Matter and Gamma Lines

Michael Duerr, Pavel Fileviez Perez, Juri Smirnov

We point out the possibility to test the simplest scalar dark matter model at gamma-ray telescopes. We discuss the relevant constraints and show the predictions for direct detectio…

hep-ph2015★ 23 cited

Gamma Lines from Majorana Dark Matter

Michael Duerr, Pavel Fileviez Perez, Juri Smirnov

We discuss simple models which predict the existence of significant gamma-ray fluxes from dark matter annihilation. In this context the dark matter candidate is a Majorana fermion…

hep-ph2015★ 23 cited

JUNO and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Shao-Feng Ge, Werner Rodejohann

We study the impact of the precision determination of oscillation parameters in the JUNO experiment on half-life predictions for neutrinoless double beta decay. We show that the so…

hep-ph2015★ 1 cited

The Electroweak Vacuum Angle at Finite Temperature and Implications for Baryogenesis

Andrew J. Long, Hiren H. Patel, Mark Trodden

We initiate a study of cosmological implications of sphaleron-mediated CP-violation arising from the electroweak vacuum angle under the reasonable assumption that the semiclassical…