Thermal dark matter through the Dirac neutrino portal

Batell, Brian; Han, Tao; McKeen, David; Haghi, Barmak Shams Es

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.075016

Title: Thermal dark matter through the Dirac neutrino portal

Abstract

We study a simple model of thermal dark matter annihilating to standard model neutrinos via the neutrino portal. A (pseudo-)Dirac sterile neutrino serves as a mediator between the visible and the dark sectors, while an approximate lepton number symmetry allows for a large neutrino Yukawa coupling and, in turn, efficient dark matter annihilation. The dark sector consists of two particles, a Dirac fermion and complex scalar, charged under a symmetry that ensures the stability of the dark matter. A generic prediction of the model is a sterile neutrino with a large active-sterile mixing angle that decays primarily invisibly. We derive existing constraints and future projections from direct detection experiments, colliders, rare meson and tau decays, electroweak precision tests, and small scale structure observations. Along with these phenomenological tests, we investigate the consequences of perturbativity and scalar mass fine tuning on the model parameter space. A simple, conservative scheme to confront the various tests with the thermal relic target is outlined, and we demonstrate that much of the cosmologically-motivated parameter space is already constrained. We also identify new probes of this scenario such as multibody kaon decays and Drell-Yan production of W bosons at the LHC.

Authors:: Batell, Brian; Han, Tao; McKeen, David; Haghi, Barmak Shams Es

Publication Date:: 2018-04-13

Research Org.:: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1433034

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1498911

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0015634; FG02-95ER40896

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: Physical Review D

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 97 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats


                    Batell, Brian, Han, Tao, McKeen, David, and Haghi, Barmak Shams Es. Thermal dark matter through the Dirac neutrino portal.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
Web.  doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.075016.

Copy to clipboard


                    Batell, Brian, Han, Tao, McKeen, David, & Haghi, Barmak Shams Es. Thermal dark matter through the Dirac neutrino portal.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.075016

Copy to clipboard


                    Batell, Brian, Han, Tao, McKeen, David, and Haghi, Barmak Shams Es. Fri .  
"Thermal dark matter through the Dirac neutrino portal".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.075016.

Copy to clipboard


                    
@article{osti_1433034,

  title        = {Thermal dark matter through the Dirac neutrino portal},

  author       = {Batell, Brian and Han, Tao and McKeen, David and Haghi, Barmak Shams Es},

  abstractNote = {We study a simple model of thermal dark matter annihilating to standard model neutrinos via the neutrino portal. A (pseudo-)Dirac sterile neutrino serves as a mediator between the visible and the dark sectors, while an approximate lepton number symmetry allows for a large neutrino Yukawa coupling and, in turn, efficient dark matter annihilation. The dark sector consists of two particles, a Dirac fermion and complex scalar, charged under a symmetry that ensures the stability of the dark matter. A generic prediction of the model is a sterile neutrino with a large active-sterile mixing angle that decays primarily invisibly. We derive existing constraints and future projections from direct detection experiments, colliders, rare meson and tau decays, electroweak precision tests, and small scale structure observations. Along with these phenomenological tests, we investigate the consequences of perturbativity and scalar mass fine tuning on the model parameter space. A simple, conservative scheme to confront the various tests with the thermal relic target is outlined, and we demonstrate that much of the cosmologically-motivated parameter space is already constrained. We also identify new probes of this scenario such as multibody kaon decays and Drell-Yan production of W bosons at the LHC.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevD.97.075016},

  journal      = {Physical Review D},

  number       = 7,

  volume       = 97,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {4}

}

Copy to clipboard

Journal Article:

Free Publicly Available Full Text

Publisher's Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.075016

Other availability

Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 8 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Export Metadata

Save to My Library

Works referenced in this record:

Two Z's or not two Z's?
journal, March 1984

Galison, Peter; Manohar, Aneesh
Physics Letters B, Vol. 136, Issue 4
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(84)91161-4

Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7, 8, and 13 TeV
journal, February 2017

Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2017, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2017)135

Global constraints on a heavy neutrino
journal, February 2016

de Gouvêa, André; Kobach, Andrew
Physical Review D, Vol. 93, Issue 3
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.033005

Review of Particle Physics
journal, October 2016

Olive, K. A.
Chinese Physics C, Vol. 40, Issue 10
DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/40/10/100001

A realistic model for dark matter interactions in the neutrino portal paradigm
journal, May 2016

Macías, Vannia González; Illana, José I.; Wudka, José
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2016)171

Search for an admixture of heavy neutrino states in pion decay
journal, October 1981

Abela, R.; Daum, M.; Eaton, G. H.
Physics Letters B, Vol. 105, Issue 4
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(81)90884-4

Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter II: exact dark symmetry
journal, June 2017

Escudero, Miguel; Rius, Nuria; Sanz, Verónica
The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 77, Issue 6
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4963-x

Search for massive neutrinos in π + → e + ν e ${\pi }^{+}{\rightarrow }e^{+}{\nu }_{e}$ decay
journal, November 2016

Ito, S.; Aguilar-Arevalo, A.; Aoki, M.
Hyperfine Interactions, Vol. 238, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1007/s10751-016-1375-5

Search for heavy neutrinos in $K^{+} \to μ^{+} ν_{H}$ decays
journal, March 2015

Artamonov, A. V.; Bassalleck, B.; Bhuyan, B.
Physical Review D, Vol. 91, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.052001

Indirect signals from solar dark matter annihilation to long-lived right-handed neutrinos
journal, April 2017

Allahverdi, Rouzbeh; Gao, Yu; Knockel, Bradley
Physical Review D, Vol. 95, Issue 7
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.075001

Warm dark matter as a solution to the small scale crisis: New constraints from high redshift Lyman- $α$ forest data
journal, August 2013

Viel, Matteo; Becker, George D.; Bolton, James S.
Physical Review D, Vol. 88, Issue 4
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.043502

Thermal dark matter from a highly decoupled sector
journal, November 2016

Berlin, Asher; Hooper, Dan; Krnjaic, Gordan
Physical Review D, Vol. 94, Issue 9
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.095019

BBN and the CMB constrain neutrino coupled light WIMPs
journal, April 2015

Nollett, Kenneth M.; Steigman, Gary
Physical Review D, Vol. 91, Issue 8
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.083505

Radiative corrections to $π_{l 2}$ decays
journal, November 1993

Marciano, William J.; Sirlin, A.
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 71, Issue 22
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.3629

Secluded WIMP dark matter
journal, April 2008

Pospelov, Maxim; Ritz, Adam; Voloshin, Mikhail
Physics Letters B, Vol. 662, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2008.02.052

Planck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters
journal, October 2014

Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Armitage-Caplan, C.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 571
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201321591

The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations
journal, July 2014

Alwall, J.; Frederix, R.; Frixione, S.
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2014, Issue 7
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2014)079

Production of heavy neutrino in next-to-leading order QCD at the LHC and beyond
journal, June 2016

Das, Arindam; Konar, Partha; Majhi, Swapan
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 6
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2016)019

MeV-mass dark matter and primordial nucleosynthesis
journal, August 2004

Serpico, Pasquale D.; Raffelt, Georg G.
Physical Review D, Vol. 70, Issue 4
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.043526

The first WIMPy halos
journal, August 2005

Green, Anne M.; Hofmann, Stefan; Schwarz, Dominik J.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2005, Issue 08
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2005/08/003

Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter I: the U(1) B−L case
journal, February 2017

Escudero, Miguel; Rius, Nuria; Sanz, Verónica
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2017, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2017)045

Small-scale power spectrum of cold dark matter
journal, May 2005

Loeb, Abraham; Zaldarriaga, Matias
Physical Review D, Vol. 71, Issue 10
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.103520

μ→eγ at a rate of one out of 109 muon decays?
journal, April 1977

Minkowski, Peter
Physics Letters B, Vol. 67, Issue 4
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(77)90435-X

Gravitational detection of a low-mass dark satellite galaxy at cosmological distance
journal, January 2012

Vegetti, S.; Lagattuta, D. J.; McKean, J. P.
Nature, Vol. 481, Issue 7381
DOI: 10.1038/nature10669

Measurements of the leptonic branching fractions of the tau
journal, January 1999

Abreu et al., P.
The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 10, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1007/s100520050583

A measurement of the τ−→μ−ν̄μντ branching ratio
journal, January 2003

Abbiendi, G.; Ainsley, C.; Åkesson, P. F.
Physics Letters B, Vol. 551, Issue 1-2
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(02)03020-4

Where Are the Missing Galactic Satellites?
journal, September 1999

Klypin, Anatoly; Kravtsov, Andrey V.; Valenzuela, Octavio
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 522, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1086/307643

An upper limit on the
journal, January 1998

Barate et al., R.
The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 2, Issue 3
DOI: 10.1007/s100520050149

Particle dark matter: evidence, candidates and constraints
journal, January 2005

Bertone, Gianfranco; Hooper, Dan; Silk, Joseph
Physics Reports, Vol. 405, Issue 5-6
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2004.08.031

Constraining dark matter candidates from structure formation
journal, October 2001

Bœhm, C.; Fayet, P.; Schaeffer, R.
Physics Letters B, Vol. 518, Issue 1-2
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(01)01060-7

Asymmetric dark matter from leptogenesis
journal, May 2011

Falkowski, Adam; Ruderman, Joshua T.; Volansky, Tomer
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2011, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)106

The search for heavy Majorana neutrinos
journal, May 2009

Atre, Anupama; Han, Tao; Pascoli, Silvia
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2009, Issue 05
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/030

Improved search for massive neutrinos in $π^{+} \to e^{+} ν$ decay
journal, August 1992

Britton, D. I.; Ahmad, S.; Bryman, D. A.
Physical Review D, Vol. 46, Issue 3
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.46.R885

Publisher’s Note: Search for heavy neutrinos in $K^{+} \to μ^{+} ν_{H}$ decays [Phys. Rev. D 91 , 052001 (2015)]
journal, March 2015

Artamonov, A. V.
Physical Review D, Vol. 91, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.059903

Measurement of the tau branching fractions into leptons
journal, May 2001

Acciarri, M.; Achard, P.; Adriani, O.
Physics Letters B, Vol. 507, Issue 1-4
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00294-5

Non-baryonic dark matter: observational evidence and detection methods
journal, April 2000

Bergström, Lars
Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 63, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/63/5/2r3

Primordial nucleosynthesis: From precision cosmology to fundamental physics
journal, March 2009

Iocco, Fabio; Mangano, Gianpiero; Miele, Gennaro
Physics Reports, Vol. 472, Issue 1-6
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2009.02.002

A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way
journal, August 2008

Strigari, Louis E.; Bullock, James S.; Kaplinghat, Manoj
Nature, Vol. 454, Issue 7208
DOI: 10.1038/nature07222

First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment
journal, October 2017

Aprile, E.; Aalbers, J.; Agostini, F.
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 18
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.181301

Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection
journal, August 2010

Feng, Jonathan L.
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 48, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-astro-082708-101659

Dark Matter Results from 54-Ton-Day Exposure of PandaX-II Experiment
journal, October 2017

Cui, Xiangyi; Abdukerim, Abdusalam; Chen, Wei
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 18
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.181302

The νMSM, dark matter and baryon asymmetry of the universe
journal, July 2005

Asaka, Takehiko; Shaposhnikov, Mikhail
Physics Letters B, Vol. 620, Issue 1-2
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.06.020

Dark matter annihilation into right-handed neutrinos and the galactic center gamma-ray excess
journal, March 2016

Tang, Yi-Lei; Zhu, Shou-hua
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 3
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2016)043

Baryogenesis via Neutrino Oscillations
journal, August 1998

Akhmedov, E. Kh.; Rubakov, V. A.; Smirnov, A. Yu.
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 81, Issue 7
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1359

Resolution of puzzles from the LSND, KARMEN, and MiniBooNE experiments
journal, January 2011

Gninenko, S. N.
Physical Review D, Vol. 83, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.015015

Branching ratio for the rare pion decay into positron and neutrino
journal, January 1993

Czapek, G.; Federspiel, A.; Flükiger, A.
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 70, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.17

Search for a massive invisible particle $X^{0}$ in $B^{+} \to e^{+} X^{0}$ and $B^{+} \to μ^{+} X^{0}$ decays
journal, July 2016

Park, C. -S.; Kwon, Y. -J.; Adachi, I.
Physical Review D, Vol. 94, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.012003

Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7\, \hbox {TeV}$$ s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
journal, February 2018

Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B.
The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 78, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5475-4

Supersymmetric SO(10) Seesaw Mechanism with Low $B − L$ Scale
journal, October 2005

Malinský, M.; Romão, J. C.; Valle, J. W. F.
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, Issue 16
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.161801

Inference of the cold dark matter substructure mass function at z = 0.2 using strong gravitational lenses
journal, June 2014

Vegetti, S.; Koopmans, L. V. E.; Auger, M. W.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 442, Issue 3
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu943

Constraints and consequences of reducing small scale structure via large dark matter-neutrino interactions
journal, April 2015

Bertoni, Bridget; Ipek, Seyda; McKeen, David
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 4
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2015)170

Search for massive neutrinos in the decay $π \to e ν$
journal, September 2011

Aoki, M.; Blecher, M.; Bryman, D. A.
Physical Review D, Vol. 84, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.052002

Mechanism for understanding small neutrino mass in superstring theories
journal, February 1986

Mohapatra, Rabindra N.
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 56, Issue 6
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.561

Detailed report of the MuLan measurement of the positive muon lifetime and determination of the Fermi constant
journal, March 2013

Tishchenko, V.; Battu, S.; Carey, R. M.
Physical Review D, Vol. 87, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.052003

Measurement of the $π^{+}$ → $e^{+}$ ν branching ratio
journal, May 1992

Britton, D. I.; Ahmad, S.; Bryman, D. A.
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 68, Issue 20
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3000

A lower bound on the mass of cold thermal dark matter from Planck
journal, August 2013

Bœhm, Céline; Dolan, Matthew J.; McCabe, Christopher
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 08
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/08/041

Neutrinos and collider physics
journal, July 2015

Deppisch, Frank F.; Bhupal Dev, P. S.; Pilaftsis, Apostolos
New Journal of Physics, Vol. 17, Issue 7
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/7/075019

Remarks on the Unified Model of Elementary Particles
journal, November 1962

Maki, Ziro; Nakagawa, Masami; Sakata, Shoichi
Progress of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 28, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1143/PTP.28.870

Cold collapse and the core catastrophe
journal, December 1999

Moore, B.; Quinn, T.; Governato, F.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 310, Issue 4
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.03039.x

Interacting dark matter disguised as warm dark matter
journal, October 2002

Bœhm, Céline; Riazuelo, Alain; Hansen, Steen H.
Physical Review D, Vol. 66, Issue 8
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.083505

Probing light thermal dark matter with a Higgs portal mediator
journal, October 2016

Krnjaic, Gordan
Physical Review D, Vol. 94, Issue 7
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.073009

Scalar dark matter candidates
journal, April 2004

Bœhm, C.; Fayet, P.
Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 683, Issue 1-2
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.01.015

Neutrino mass and baryon-number nonconservation in superstring models
journal, September 1986

Mohapatra, R. N.; Valle, J. W. F.
Physical Review D, Vol. 34, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.34.1642

DELPHES 3: a modular framework for fast simulation of a generic collider experiment
journal, February 2014

de Favereau, J.; Delaere, C.; Demin, P.
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2014, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2014)057

Supersymmetric dark matter
journal, March 1996

Jungman, Gerard; Kamionkowski, Marc; Griest, Kim
Physics Reports, Vol. 267, Issue 5-6
DOI: 10.1016/0370-1573(95)00058-5

Analyzing the Discovery Potential for Light Dark Matter
journal, December 2015

Izaguirre, Eder; Krnjaic, Gordan; Schuster, Philip
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 25
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.251301

Heavy Majorana neutrinos from Wγ fusion at hadron colliders
journal, February 2015

Alva, Daniel; Han, Tao; Ruiz, Richard
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2015)072

Measurement of the $τ$ -lepton Lifetime at Belle
journal, January 2014

Belous, K.; Shapkin, M.; Sokolov, A.
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 112, Issue 3
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.031801

Effective theories for Dark Matter interactions and the neutrino portal paradigm
journal, July 2015

Macías, Vannia González; Wudka, José
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 7
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2015)161

A measurement of the branching ratio
journal, February 1999

Abbiendi, G.; Ackerstaff, K.; Alexander, G.
Physics Letters B, Vol. 447, Issue 1-2
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01553-6

Search for right-handed neutrinos from dark matter annihilation with gamma-rays
journal, July 2017

Campos, Miguel D.; Queiroz, Farinaldo S.; Yaguna, Carlos E.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2017, Issue 07
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/07/016

Neutrino Mass and Spontaneous Parity Nonconservation
journal, April 1980

Mohapatra, Rabindra N.; Senjanović, Goran
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 44, Issue 14
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.44.912

Scalar Phantoms
journal, October 1985

Silveira, Vanda; Zee, A.
Physics Letters B, Vol. 161, Issue 1-3
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(85)90624-0

Indirect dark matter signatures in the cosmic dark ages. I. Generalizing the bound on $s$ -wave dark matter annihilation from Planck results
journal, January 2016

Slatyer, Tracy R.
Physical Review D, Vol. 93, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.023527

Neutrino masses in SU(2) ⊗ U(1) theories
journal, November 1980

Schechter, J.; Valle, J. W. F.
Physical Review D, Vol. 22, Issue 9
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.22.2227

Fully automated precision predictions for heavy neutrino production mechanisms at hadron colliders
journal, September 2016

Degrande, Céline; Mattelaer, Olivier; Ruiz, Richard
Physical Review D, Vol. 94, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.053002

The upper bound on the lowest mass halo
journal, September 2017

Jethwa, P.; Erkal, D.; Belokurov, V.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 473, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2330

Light and heavy dark matter particles
journal, May 2004

Bœhm, C.; Fayet, P.; Silk, J.
Physical Review D, Vol. 69, Issue 10
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.101302

Non-linear evolution of suppressed dark matter primordial power spectra
journal, June 2005

Boehm, C.; Mathis, H.; Devriendt, J.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 360, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09032.x

Discrete gauge symmetry in continuum theories
journal, March 1989

Krauss, Lawrence M.; Wilczek, Frank
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 62, Issue 11
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.1221

Branching ratios and spectral functions of τ decays: Final ALEPH measurements and physics implications
journal, December 2005

Schael, S.; Barate, R.; Brunelière, R.
Physics Reports, Vol. 421, Issue 5-6
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2005.06.007

Limits on sterile neutrino mixing using atmospheric neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande
journal, March 2015

Abe, K.; Haga, Y.; Hayato, Y.
Physical Review D, Vol. 91, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.052019

Search for heavy neutrinos in K + → μ + ν μ decays
journal, September 2017

Lazzeroni, C.; Lurkin, N.; Newson, F.
Physics Letters B, Vol. 772
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.07.055

The beam and detector of the NA62 experiment at CERN
journal, May 2017

Gil, E. Cortina; Albarrán, E. Martín; Minucci, E.
Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 12, Issue 05
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/12/05/P05025

Two U(1)'s and ϵ charge shifts
journal, January 1986

Holdom, Bob
Physics Letters B, Vol. 166, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(86)91377-8

Heavy-Neutrino Search Using $K_{μ 2}$ Decay
journal, November 1982

Hayano, R. S.; Taniguchi, T.; Yamanaka, T.
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 49, Issue 18
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1305

Complementarity of dark matter detectors in light of the neutrino background
journal, October 2014

Ruppin, F.; Billard, J.; Figueroa-Feliciano, E.
Physical Review D, Vol. 90, Issue 8
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.083510

Precision tau physics
journal, March 2014

Pich, Antonio
Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vol. 75
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2013.11.002

Dark matter relic abundance and light sterile neutrinos
journal, January 2017

Tang, Yi-Lei; Zhu, Shou-hua
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2017, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2017)025

Projected sensitivity of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment
journal, April 2017

Agnese, R.; Anderson, A. J.; Aramaki, T.
Physical Review D, Vol. 95, Issue 8
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.082002

Experimental tests of lepton universality in $τ$ decay
journal, March 1997

Anastassov, A.; Blinov, S.; Duboscq, J. E.
Physical Review D, Vol. 55, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.2559

Works referencing / citing this record:

Dark matter from freeze-in via the neutrino portal
journal, July 2019

Becker, Mathias
The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 79, Issue 7
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7095-7

Dark matter from freeze-in via the neutrino portal
journal, July 2019

Becker, Mathias
The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 79, Issue 7
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7095-7

Neutrino decoupling beyond the Standard Model: CMB constraints on the Dark Matter mass with a fast and precise N _eff evaluation
journal, February 2019

Escudero, Miguel
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2019, Issue 02
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/007

Refined bounds on MeV-scale thermal dark sectors from BBN and the CMB
journal, January 2020

Sabti, Nashwan; Alvey, James; Escudero, Miguel
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2020, Issue 01
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/01/004

Cosmic neutrino background search experiments as decaying dark matter detectors
journal, July 2019

McKeen, David
Physical Review D, Vol. 100, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.015028

Neutrino-dark matter connections in gauge theories
journal, August 2019

Fileviez Pérez, Pavel; Murgui, Clara; Plascencia, Alexis D.
Physical Review D, Vol. 100, Issue 3
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.035041

Improved constraints on sterile neutrinos in the MeV to GeV mass range
journal, September 2019

Bryman, D. A.; Shrock, R.
Physical Review D, Vol. 100, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.053006

Constraints on sterile neutrinos in the MeV to GeV mass range
journal, October 2019

Bryman, D. A.; Shrock, R.
Physical Review D, Vol. 100, Issue 7
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.073011

Probing light dark matter with a hadrophilic scalar mediator
journal, November 2019

Batell, Brian; Freitas, Ayres; Ismail, Ahmed
Physical Review D, Vol. 100, Issue 9
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.095020

Monochromatic dark neutrinos and boosted dark matter in noble liquid direct detection
journal, May 2019

McKeen, David; Raj, Nirmal
Physical Review D, Vol. 99, Issue 10
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.99.103003

Wobbly Dark Matter Signals at Cherenkov Telescopes from Long-Lived Mediator Decays
journal, May 2019

Gori, Stefania; Profumo, Stefano; Shakya, Bibhushan
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 122, Issue 19
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.191103

Neutrino Echoes from Multimessenger Transient Sources
journal, December 2019

Murase, Kohta; Shoemaker, Ian M.
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 123, Issue 24
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.241102

Similar Records in DOE PAGES and OSTI.GOV collections:

Indirect detection of neutrino portal dark matter

Journal Article Batell, Brian ; Han, Tao ; Shams Es Haghi, Barmak - Physical Review D

We investigate the feasibility of the indirect detection of dark matter in a simple model using the neutrino portal. The model is very economical, with right-handed neutrinos generating neutrino masses through the type-I seesaw mechanism and simultaneously mediating interactions with dark matter. Given the small neutrino Yukawa couplings expected in a type-I seesaw, direct detection and accelerator probes of dark matter in this scenario are challenging. However, dark matter can efficiently annihilate to right-handed neutrinos, which then decay via active-sterile mixing through the weak interactions, leading to a variety of indirect astronomical signatures. We derive the existing constraints on thismore »« less
Cited by 7
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.095020
Isocurvature constraints on portal couplings

Journal Article Kainulainen, Kimmo ; Nurmi, Sami ; Vaskonen, Ville ; ... - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

We consider portal models which are ultraweakly coupled with the Standard Model, and confront them with observational constraints on dark matter abundance and isocurvature perturbations. We assume the hidden sector to contain a real singlet scalar s and a sterile neutrino ψ coupled to s via a pseudoscalar Yukawa term. During inflation, a primordial condensate consisting of the singlet scalar s is generated, and its contribution to the isocurvature perturbations is imprinted onto the dark matter abundance. We compute the total dark matter abundance including the contributions from condensate decay and nonthermal production from the Standard Model sector. We thenmore »« less
https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/06/022
Common origin of neutrino mass, dark matter and Dirac leptogenesis

Journal Article Borah, Debasish ; Dasgupta, Arnab - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

We study the possibility of generating tiny Dirac neutrino masses at one loop level through the scotogenic mechanism such that one of the particles going inside the loop can be a stable cold dark matter (DM) candidate. Majorana mass terms of singlet fermions as well as tree level Dirac neutrino masses are prevented by incorporating the presence of additional discrete symmetries in a minimal fashion, which also guarantee the stability of the dark matter candidate. Due to the absence of total lepton number violation, the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe is generated through the mechanism of Dirac leptogenesis wheremore »« less
https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/12/034
Fermionic dark matter with pseudo-scalar Yukawa interaction

Journal Article Ghorbani, Karim - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

We consider a renormalizable extension of the standard model whose fermionic dark matter (DM) candidate interacts with a real singlet pseudo-scalar via a pseudo-scalar Yukawa term while we assume that the full Lagrangian is CP-conserved in the classical level. When the pseudo-scalar boson develops a non-zero vacuum expectation value, spontaneous CP-violation occurs and this provides a CP-violated interaction of the dark sector with the SM particles through mixing between the Higgs-like boson and the SM-like Higgs boson. This scenario suggests a minimal number of free parameters. Focusing mainly on the indirect detection observables, we calculate the dark matter annihilation crossmore »« less
https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/01/015
Unified scenario for composite right-handed neutrinos and dark matter

Journal Article Davoudiasl, Hooman ; Giardino, Pier Paolo ; Neil, Ethan T. ; ... - Physical Review D

In this study, we entertain the possibility that neutrino masses and dark matter (DM) originate from a common composite dark sector. A minimal effective theory can be constructed based on a dark SU(3)_D interaction with three flavors of massless dark quarks; electroweak symmetry breaking gives masses to the dark quarks. By assigning a Z₂ charge to one flavor, a stable “dark kaon” can provide a good thermal relic DM candidate. We find that “dark neutrons” may be identified as right handed Dirac neutrinos. Some level of “neutron-anti-neutron” oscillation in the dark sector can then result in non-zero Majorana masses formore »« less
Cited by 1
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.115003

Full Text Available

Similar Records

Title: Thermal dark matter through the Dirac neutrino portal

Abstract

Citation Formats

Two Z's or not two Z's? journal, March 1984

Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7, 8, and 13 TeV journal, February 2017

Global constraints on a heavy neutrino journal, February 2016

Review of Particle Physics journal, October 2016

A realistic model for dark matter interactions in the neutrino portal paradigm journal, May 2016

Search for an admixture of heavy neutrino states in pion decay journal, October 1981

Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter II: exact dark symmetry journal, June 2017

Search for massive neutrinos in π + → e + ν e ${\pi }^{+}{\rightarrow }e^{+}{\nu }_{e}$ decay journal, November 2016

Search for heavy neutrinos in K + → μ + ν H decays journal, March 2015

Indirect signals from solar dark matter annihilation to long-lived right-handed neutrinos journal, April 2017

Warm dark matter as a solution to the small scale crisis: New constraints from high redshift Lyman- α forest data journal, August 2013

Thermal dark matter from a highly decoupled sector journal, November 2016

BBN and the CMB constrain neutrino coupled light WIMPs journal, April 2015

Radiative corrections to π l 2 decays journal, November 1993

Secluded WIMP dark matter journal, April 2008

Planck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters journal, October 2014

The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations journal, July 2014

Production of heavy neutrino in next-to-leading order QCD at the LHC and beyond journal, June 2016

MeV-mass dark matter and primordial nucleosynthesis journal, August 2004

The first WIMPy halos journal, August 2005

Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter I: the U(1) B−L case journal, February 2017

Small-scale power spectrum of cold dark matter journal, May 2005

μ→eγ at a rate of one out of 109 muon decays? journal, April 1977

Gravitational detection of a low-mass dark satellite galaxy at cosmological distance journal, January 2012

Measurements of the leptonic branching fractions of the tau journal, January 1999

A measurement of the τ−→μ−ν̄μντ branching ratio journal, January 2003

Where Are the Missing Galactic Satellites? journal, September 1999

An upper limit on the journal, January 1998

Particle dark matter: evidence, candidates and constraints journal, January 2005

Constraining dark matter candidates from structure formation journal, October 2001

Asymmetric dark matter from leptogenesis journal, May 2011

The search for heavy Majorana neutrinos journal, May 2009

Improved search for massive neutrinos in π + → e + ν decay journal, August 1992

Publisher’s Note: Search for heavy neutrinos in K + → μ + ν H decays [Phys. Rev. D 91 , 052001 (2015)] journal, March 2015

Measurement of the tau branching fractions into leptons journal, May 2001

Non-baryonic dark matter: observational evidence and detection methods journal, April 2000

Primordial nucleosynthesis: From precision cosmology to fundamental physics journal, March 2009

A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way journal, August 2008

First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment journal, October 2017

Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection journal, August 2010

Dark Matter Results from 54-Ton-Day Exposure of PandaX-II Experiment journal, October 2017

The νMSM, dark matter and baryon asymmetry of the universe journal, July 2005

Dark matter annihilation into right-handed neutrinos and the galactic center gamma-ray excess journal, March 2016

Baryogenesis via Neutrino Oscillations journal, August 1998

Resolution of puzzles from the LSND, KARMEN, and MiniBooNE experiments journal, January 2011

Branching ratio for the rare pion decay into positron and neutrino journal, January 1993

Search for a massive invisible particle X 0 in B + → e + X 0 and B + → μ + X 0 decays journal, July 2016

Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7\, \hbox {TeV}$$ s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector journal, February 2018

Supersymmetric SO(10) Seesaw Mechanism with Low B − L Scale journal, October 2005

Inference of the cold dark matter substructure mass function at z = 0.2 using strong gravitational lenses journal, June 2014

Constraints and consequences of reducing small scale structure via large dark matter-neutrino interactions journal, April 2015

Search for massive neutrinos in the decay π → e ν journal, September 2011

Mechanism for understanding small neutrino mass in superstring theories journal, February 1986

Detailed report of the MuLan measurement of the positive muon lifetime and determination of the Fermi constant journal, March 2013

Measurement of the π + → e + ν branching ratio journal, May 1992

A lower bound on the mass of cold thermal dark matter from Planck journal, August 2013

Neutrinos and collider physics journal, July 2015

Remarks on the Unified Model of Elementary Particles journal, November 1962

Cold collapse and the core catastrophe journal, December 1999

Interacting dark matter disguised as warm dark matter journal, October 2002

Probing light thermal dark matter with a Higgs portal mediator journal, October 2016

Scalar dark matter candidates journal, April 2004

Neutrino mass and baryon-number nonconservation in superstring models journal, September 1986

DELPHES 3: a modular framework for fast simulation of a generic collider experiment journal, February 2014

Supersymmetric dark matter journal, March 1996

Analyzing the Discovery Potential for Light Dark Matter journal, December 2015

Heavy Majorana neutrinos from Wγ fusion at hadron colliders journal, February 2015

Measurement of the τ -lepton Lifetime at Belle journal, January 2014

Effective theories for Dark Matter interactions and the neutrino portal paradigm journal, July 2015

A measurement of the branching ratio journal, February 1999

Search for right-handed neutrinos from dark matter annihilation with gamma-rays journal, July 2017

Neutrino Mass and Spontaneous Parity Nonconservation journal, April 1980

Scalar Phantoms journal, October 1985

Indirect dark matter signatures in the cosmic dark ages. I. Generalizing the bound on s -wave dark matter annihilation from Planck results journal, January 2016

Neutrino masses in SU(2) ⊗ U(1) theories journal, November 1980

Fully automated precision predictions for heavy neutrino production mechanisms at hadron colliders journal, September 2016

The upper bound on the lowest mass halo journal, September 2017

Two Z's or not two Z's?
journal, March 1984

Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7, 8, and 13 TeV
journal, February 2017

Global constraints on a heavy neutrino
journal, February 2016

Review of Particle Physics
journal, October 2016

A realistic model for dark matter interactions in the neutrino portal paradigm
journal, May 2016

Search for an admixture of heavy neutrino states in pion decay
journal, October 1981

Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter II: exact dark symmetry
journal, June 2017

Search for massive neutrinos in π + → e + ν e ${\pi }^{+}{\rightarrow }e^{+}{\nu }_{e}$ decay
journal, November 2016

Search for heavy neutrinos in $K^{+} \to μ^{+} ν_{H}$ decays
journal, March 2015

Indirect signals from solar dark matter annihilation to long-lived right-handed neutrinos
journal, April 2017

Warm dark matter as a solution to the small scale crisis: New constraints from high redshift Lyman- $α$ forest data
journal, August 2013

Thermal dark matter from a highly decoupled sector
journal, November 2016

BBN and the CMB constrain neutrino coupled light WIMPs
journal, April 2015

Radiative corrections to $π_{l 2}$ decays
journal, November 1993

Secluded WIMP dark matter
journal, April 2008

Planck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters
journal, October 2014

The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations
journal, July 2014

Production of heavy neutrino in next-to-leading order QCD at the LHC and beyond
journal, June 2016

MeV-mass dark matter and primordial nucleosynthesis
journal, August 2004

The first WIMPy halos
journal, August 2005

Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter I: the U(1) B−L case
journal, February 2017

Small-scale power spectrum of cold dark matter
journal, May 2005

μ→eγ at a rate of one out of 109 muon decays?
journal, April 1977

Gravitational detection of a low-mass dark satellite galaxy at cosmological distance
journal, January 2012

Measurements of the leptonic branching fractions of the tau
journal, January 1999

A measurement of the τ−→μ−ν̄μντ branching ratio
journal, January 2003

Where Are the Missing Galactic Satellites?
journal, September 1999

An upper limit on the
journal, January 1998

Particle dark matter: evidence, candidates and constraints
journal, January 2005

Constraining dark matter candidates from structure formation
journal, October 2001

Asymmetric dark matter from leptogenesis
journal, May 2011

The search for heavy Majorana neutrinos
journal, May 2009

Improved search for massive neutrinos in $π^{+} \to e^{+} ν$ decay
journal, August 1992

Publisher’s Note: Search for heavy neutrinos in $K^{+} \to μ^{+} ν_{H}$ decays [Phys. Rev. D 91 , 052001 (2015)]
journal, March 2015

Measurement of the tau branching fractions into leptons
journal, May 2001

Non-baryonic dark matter: observational evidence and detection methods
journal, April 2000

Primordial nucleosynthesis: From precision cosmology to fundamental physics
journal, March 2009

A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way
journal, August 2008

First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment
journal, October 2017

Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection
journal, August 2010

Dark Matter Results from 54-Ton-Day Exposure of PandaX-II Experiment
journal, October 2017

The νMSM, dark matter and baryon asymmetry of the universe
journal, July 2005

Dark matter annihilation into right-handed neutrinos and the galactic center gamma-ray excess
journal, March 2016

Baryogenesis via Neutrino Oscillations
journal, August 1998

Resolution of puzzles from the LSND, KARMEN, and MiniBooNE experiments
journal, January 2011

Branching ratio for the rare pion decay into positron and neutrino
journal, January 1993

Search for a massive invisible particle $X^{0}$ in $B^{+} \to e^{+} X^{0}$ and $B^{+} \to μ^{+} X^{0}$ decays
journal, July 2016

Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7\, \hbox {TeV}$$ s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
journal, February 2018

Supersymmetric SO(10) Seesaw Mechanism with Low $B − L$ Scale
journal, October 2005

Inference of the cold dark matter substructure mass function at z = 0.2 using strong gravitational lenses
journal, June 2014

Constraints and consequences of reducing small scale structure via large dark matter-neutrino interactions
journal, April 2015

Search for massive neutrinos in the decay $π \to e ν$
journal, September 2011

Mechanism for understanding small neutrino mass in superstring theories
journal, February 1986

Detailed report of the MuLan measurement of the positive muon lifetime and determination of the Fermi constant
journal, March 2013

Measurement of the $π^{+}$ → $e^{+}$ ν branching ratio
journal, May 1992

A lower bound on the mass of cold thermal dark matter from Planck
journal, August 2013

Neutrinos and collider physics
journal, July 2015

Remarks on the Unified Model of Elementary Particles
journal, November 1962

Cold collapse and the core catastrophe
journal, December 1999

Interacting dark matter disguised as warm dark matter
journal, October 2002

Probing light thermal dark matter with a Higgs portal mediator
journal, October 2016

Scalar dark matter candidates
journal, April 2004

Neutrino mass and baryon-number nonconservation in superstring models
journal, September 1986

DELPHES 3: a modular framework for fast simulation of a generic collider experiment
journal, February 2014

Supersymmetric dark matter
journal, March 1996

Analyzing the Discovery Potential for Light Dark Matter
journal, December 2015

Heavy Majorana neutrinos from Wγ fusion at hadron colliders
journal, February 2015

Measurement of the $τ$ -lepton Lifetime at Belle
journal, January 2014

Effective theories for Dark Matter interactions and the neutrino portal paradigm
journal, July 2015

A measurement of the branching ratio
journal, February 1999

Search for right-handed neutrinos from dark matter annihilation with gamma-rays
journal, July 2017

Neutrino Mass and Spontaneous Parity Nonconservation
journal, April 1980

Scalar Phantoms
journal, October 1985

Indirect dark matter signatures in the cosmic dark ages. I. Generalizing the bound on $s$ -wave dark matter annihilation from Planck results
journal, January 2016

Neutrino masses in SU(2) ⊗ U(1) theories
journal, November 1980

Fully automated precision predictions for heavy neutrino production mechanisms at hadron colliders
journal, September 2016

The upper bound on the lowest mass halo
journal, September 2017

Light and heavy dark matter particles
journal, May 2004

Non-linear evolution of suppressed dark matter primordial power spectra
journal, June 2005

Discrete gauge symmetry in continuum theories
journal, March 1989