Stability of dark matter from the D4xZ2 flavor group

TL;DR

This paper presents a model using the D4 flavor symmetry group that stabilizes dark matter through residual symmetries and makes specific predictions for neutrino mixing and lepton flavor violation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel D4-based framework that links dark matter stability with lepton and quark flavor structures, providing testable predictions.

Findings

Dark matter stability is achieved via residual Z2 symmetries.

The model predicts a normal hierarchy and zero reactor angle in neutrino mixing.

Lepton flavor violation constraints are satisfied within the parameter space.

Abstract

We study a model based on the dihedral group D4 in which the dark matter is stabilized by the interplay between a remnant Z2 symmetry, of the same spontaneously broken non-abelian group, and an auxiliary Z2 introduced to eliminate unwanted couplings in the scalar potential. In the lepton sector the model is compatible with normal hierarchy only and predicts a vanishing reactor mixing angle. Since m1=0, we also have a simple prediction for the effective mass in terms of the solar angle. There also exists a large portion of the model parameter space where the upper bounds on lepton flavor violating processes are not violated. We incorporate quarks in the same scheme finding that a description of the CKM mixing matrix is possible and that semileptonic K and D decays mediated by flavour changing neutral currents are under control.