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Weakly interacting massive particle dark matter and radiative neutrino mass from Peccei-Quinn symmetry

Basudeb Dasgupta^1,*, Ernest Ma^2,†, and Koji Tsumura^3,‡

¹International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste, Italy
²Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
³Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan

^*bdasgupta@ictp.it
^†ernest.ma@ucr.edu
^‡ko2@eken.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Phys. Rev. D 89, 041702(R) – Published 25 February, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.041702

Abstract

The Peccei-Quinn anomalous global $U {(1)}_{P Q}$ symmetry is important for solving the strong $C P$ problem with a cosmologically relevant axion. We add to this the simple (but hitherto unexplored) observation that it also has a residual $Z_{2}$ symmetry which may be responsible for a second component of dark matter, i.e., an absolutely stable weakly interacting singlet scalar. This new insight provides a theoretical justification for this simplest of all possible dark-matter models. It also connects with the notion of generating radiative neutrino mass through dark matter. Two such specific realizations are proposed. In our general scenario, dark-matter detection is guaranteed at existing direct-detection experiments and/or axion searches. Observable signals at the Large Hadron Collider are discussed.

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