Double Type-II Seesaw, Baryon Asymmetry and Dark Matter for Cosmic e^\pm Excesses

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel model combining type-II seesaw for neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry, and dark matter explanations, with potential LHC signatures and cosmic ray implications.

Contribution

It introduces a new realization of type-II seesaw involving light and heavy singlet scalars, linking neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry, and dark matter within a unified framework.

Findings

Higgs triplet remains light and accessible at LHC.

Heavy singlet decays generate lepton asymmetry for matter-antimatter asymmetry.

Stable gauge bosons can explain dark matter relic density and cosmic e^/e^ excesses.

Abstract

We construct a new realization of type-II seesaw for neutrino masses and baryon asymmetry by extending the standard model with one light and two heavy singlet scalars besides one Higgs triplet. The heavy singlets pick up small vacuum expectation values to give a suppressed trilinear coupling between the triplet and doublet Higgs bosons after the light singlet drives the spontaneous breaking of lepton number. The Higgs triplet can thus remain light and be accessible at the LHC. The lepton number conserving decays of the heavy singlets can generate a lepton asymmetry stored in the Higgs triplet to account for the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. We further introduce stable gauge bosons from a hidden sector, which obtain masses and annihilate into the Higgs triplet after spontaneous breaking of the associated non-Abelian gauge symmetry. With Breit-Wigner enhancement, the stable gauge bosons can simultaneously explain the relic density of dark matter and the cosmic positron/electron excesses.