Sterile neutrino dark matter in left-right theories

Dror, Jeff A.; Dunsky, David; Hall, Lawrence J.; Harigaya, Keisuke

doi:10.1007/jhep07(2020)168

Title: Sterile neutrino dark matter in left-right theories

Journal Article · Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07(2020)168· OSTI ID:1659721

Dror, Jeff A. ^[1]; Dunsky, David ^[1]; Hall, Lawrence J. ^[1]; Harigaya, Keisuke ^[2]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Inst. for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States)

SU(2)_L× SU(2)_R gauge symmetry requires three right-handed neutrinos (N_i), one of which, N₁, can be sufficiently stable to be dark matter. In the early universe, W_R exchange with the Standard Model thermal bath keeps the right-handed neutrinos in thermal equilibrium at high temperatures. N₁ can make up all of dark matter if they freeze-out while relativistic and are mildly diluted by subsequent decays of a long-lived and heavier right-handed neutrino, N₂. We systematically study this parameter space, constraining the symmetry breaking scale of SU(2)_R and the mass of N₁ to a triangle in the (v_R, M₁) plane, with v_R = (10⁶- 3 × 10¹²) GeV and M₁ = (2 keV–1 MeV). Much of this triangle can be probed by signals of warm dark matter, especially if leptogenesis from N₂ decay yields the observed baryon asymmetry. The minimal value of v_R is increased to 10⁸ GeV for doublet breaking of SU(2)_R, and further to 10⁹ GeV if leptogenesis occurs via N₂ decay, while the upper bound on M₁ is reduced to 100 keV. In addition, there is a component of hot N₁ dark matter resulting from the late decay of N₂→ N₁ℓ+ℓ- that can be probed by future cosmic microwave background observations. Interestingly, the range of v_R allows both precision gauge coupling unification and the Higgs Parity understanding of the vanishing of the Standard Model Higgs quartic at scale vR. Finally, we study freeze-in production of N₁ dark matter via the WR interaction, which allows a much wider range of (v_R, M₁).

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; SC0009988; PHY-1316783; PHY-1521446

OSTI ID:: 1659721

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2020, Issue 7; ISSN 1029-8479

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