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hep-ph2016★ 9 cited

Minimal Seesaw Model with a Discrete Heavy-Neutrino Exchange Symmetry

Thomas Rink, Kai Schmitz, Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We present a Froggatt-Nielsen flavor model that yields a minimal realization of the type-I seesaw mechanism. This seesaw model is minimal for three reasons: (i) It features only tw…

hep-ph2016★ 39 cited

Augury of Darkness: The Low-Mass Dark Z' Portal

Alexandre Alves, Giorgio Arcadi, Yann Mambrini +2

Dirac fermion dark matter models with heavy mediators are subject to stringent constraints from spin-independent direct searches and from LHC bounds, cornering them to…

hep-ph2016★ 13 cited

Minima of the Scalar Potential in the Type II Seesaw Model: From Local to Global

Xun-Jie Xu

The Type II seesaw model requires that its scalar doublet and triplet get specific patterns of VEVs and $\langleΔ\rangle\propto(0,0,1)^{T…

hep-ph2016★ 56 cited

R-parity as a residual gauge symmetry : probing a theory of cosmological dark matter

Alexandre Alves, Giorgio Arcadi, P. V. Dong +3

We present a non-supersymmetric scenario in which the R-parity symmetry arises as a result of spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking, leading to a viable Dira…

hep-ph2016★ 7 cited

Testing Higgs Coupling Precision and New Physics Scales at Lepton Colliders

Shao-Feng Ge, Hong-Jian He, Rui-Qing Xiao

The next-generation lepton colliders, such as CEPC, FCC-ee, and ILC will make precision measurement of the Higgs boson properties. We first extract the Higgs coupling precision fro…

hep-ph2016★ 12 cited

Unification and Local Baryon Number

Pavel Fileviez Perez, Sebastian Ohmer

We investigate the possibility to find an ultraviolet completion of the simple extensions of the Standard Model where baryon number is a local symmetry. In the context of such theo…

hep-ph2016★ 181 cited

Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering and new Neutrino Interactions

Manfred Lindner, Werner Rodejohann, Xun-Jie Xu

We investigate the potential to probe new neutrino physics with future experiments measuring coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. Experiments with high statistics should become fe…

hep-ph2016★ 42 cited

First-order strong-field QED processes in a tightly focused laser beam

A. Di Piazza

In [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{117}, 213201 (2016)] we have determined the angular resolved and the total energy spectrum of a positron produced via nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair prod…

hep-ph2016★ 285 cited

Package-X 2.0: A Mathematica package for the analytic calculation of one-loop integrals

Hiren H. Patel

This article summarizes new features and enhancements of the first major update of Package-X. Package-X 2.0 can now generate analytic expressions for arbitrarily high rank dimensio…

hep-ph2016★ 37 cited

Evading Direct Dark Matter Detection in Higgs Portal Models

Giorgio Arcadi, Christian Gross, Oleg Lebedev +2

Many models of Higgs portal Dark Matter (DM) find themselves under pressure from increasingly tight direct detection constraints. In the framework of gauge field DM, we study how s…

hep-ph2016★ 19 cited

Dark Matter Phenomenology of SM and Enlarged Higgs Sectors Extended with Vector Like Leptons

Andrei Angelescu, Giorgio Arcadi

We will investigate the scenario in which the Standard Model (SM) Higgs sector and its 2-doublet extension (called the Two Higgs Doublet Model or 2HDM) are the "portal" for the int…

hep-ph2016★ 67 cited

Multicomponent Dark Matter from Gauge Symmetry

Giorgio Arcadi, Christian Gross, Oleg Lebedev +3

The composition of Dark Matter (DM) remains an important open question. The current data do not distinguish between single- and multi-component DM, while in theory constructions it…

hep-ph2016★ 78 cited

Probing the scotogenic FIMP at the LHC

Andre Hessler, Alejandro Ibarra, Emiliano Molinaro +1

We analyse the signatures at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the scotogenic model, when the lightest Z2-odd particle is a singlet fermion and a feebly interacting massive partic…

hep-ph2016★ 21 cited

Perturbed Yukawa Textures in the Minimal Seesaw Model

Thomas Rink, Kai Schmitz

\noindent We revisit the \textit{minimal seesaw model}, i.e., the type-I seesaw mechanism involving only two right-handed neutrinos. % This model represents an important minimal be…

hep-ph2016★ 100 cited

Naturalness, Vacuum Stability and Leptogenesis in the Minimal Seesaw Model

Gulab Bambhaniya, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Srubabati Goswami +2

The right-handed neutrinos within the type-I seesaw mechanism can induce large radiative corrections to the Higgs mass, and naturalness arguments can then be used to set limits on…

hep-ph2016★ 27 cited

Isospin-violating dark matter in the light of recent data

Carlos E. Yaguna

In scenarios where the dark matter interacts differently with protons and neutrons (isospin-violating dark matter), the interpretation of the experimental limits on the dark matter…

hep-ph2016★ 34 cited

Is the dark matter particle its own antiparticle?

Farinaldo S. Queiroz, Werner Rodejohann, Carlos E. Yaguna

We propose a test based on direct detection data that allows to determine if the dark matter particle is different from its antiparticle. The test requires the precise measurement…

hep-ph2016★ 26 cited

Heavy right-handed neutrino dark matter in left-right models

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

We show that in a class of non-supersymmetric left-right extensions of the Standard Model (SM), the lightest right-handed neutrino (RHN) can play the role of thermal Dark Matter (D…

hep-ph2016★ 12 cited

The Liouville equation for flavour evolution of neutrinos and neutrino wave packets

Rasmus Sloth Lundkvist Hansen, Alexei Yu. Smirnov

We consider several aspects related to the form, derivation and applications of the Liouville equation (LE) for flavour evolution of neutrinos. To take into account the quantum nat…

hep-ph2016★ 30 cited

A Call for New Physics : The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment and Lepton Flavor Violation

Manfred Lindner, Moritz Platscher, Farinaldo S. Queiroz

We review how the muon anomalous magnetic moment () and the quest for lepton flavor violation are intimately correlated. Indeed the decay is induced by the same amp…

hep-ph2016★ 3 cited

Prospects for three-body Higgs boson decays into extra light scalars

Alexander J. Helmboldt, Manfred Lindner

Within models containing a very light scalar particle coupled to the 125 GeV Higgs boson, we present the first detailed study of Higgs decays into three of these light scalars. We…

hep-ph2016★ 212 cited

Explaining Dark Matter and Decay Anomalies with an Model

Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Stefania Gori, Stefano Profumo +1

We present a dark sector model based on gauging the symmetry that addresses anomalies in decays and that features a particle dark matter candid…

hep-ph2016★ 61 cited

Gravitational Waves as a New Probe of Bose-Einstein Condensate Dark Matter

P. S. Bhupal Dev, Manfred Lindner, Sebastian Ohmer

There exists a class of ultralight Dark Matter (DM) models which could form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in the early universe and behave as a single coherent wave instead of i…

hep-ph2016★ 35 cited

Extracting Majorana Properties in the Throat of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Shao-Feng Ge, Manfred Lindner

Assuming that neutrinos are Majorana particles, we explore what information can be inferred from future strong limits (i.e. non-observation) for neutrinoless double beta decay. Spe…