Dark Matter and Strong Electroweak Phase Transition in a Radiative Neutrino Mass Model

TL;DR

This paper explores a model extending the Standard Model with charged scalars and right-handed neutrinos, explaining neutrino masses, dark matter, and enabling a strong electroweak phase transition, with implications for collider physics.

Contribution

It introduces a three-loop neutrino mass model with dark matter candidate and a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition, linking neutrino physics and cosmology.

Findings

Neutrino masses explained via three-loop mechanism.

Dark matter relic density consistent with Planck data.

Electroweak phase transition can be strongly first order.

Abstract

We consider an extension of the standard model (SM) with charged singlet scalars and right handed (RH) neutrinos all at the electroweak scale. In this model, the neutrino masses are generated at three loops, which provide an explanation for their smallness, and the lightest RH neutrino, $N_{1}$, is a dark matter candidate. We find that for three generations of RH neutrinos, the model can be consistent with the neutrino oscillation data, lepton flavor violating processes, $N_{1}$ can have a relic density in agreement with the recent Planck data, and the electroweak phase transition can be strongly first order. We also show that the charged scalars may enhance the branching ratio $h-->YY$, where as $h-->YZ$ get can get few percent suppression. We also discuss the phenomenological implications of the RH neutrinos at the collider.