Dark Matter and Leptogenesis Linked by Classical Scale Invariance

TL;DR

This paper proposes a classically scale invariant extension of the Standard Model that simultaneously explains dark matter and baryon asymmetry through a dark sector and leptogenesis, with all scales generated radiatively.

Contribution

It introduces a novel model linking dark matter, leptogenesis, and neutrino masses via classical scale invariance and radiative scale generation.

Findings

Dark matter candidates are stable, gauge bosons of a non-Abelian SU(2) dark sector.

Lepton asymmetry is generated through CP-violating oscillations of right-handed neutrinos.

All characteristic scales are radiatively generated and interconnected.

Abstract

In this work we study a classically scale invariant extension of the Standard Model that can explain simultaneously dark matter and the baryon asymmetry in the universe. In our set-up we introduce a dark sector, namely a non-Abelian SU(2) hidden sector coupled to the SM via the Higgs portal, and a singlet sector responsible for generating Majorana masses for three right-handed sterile neutrinos. The gauge bosons of the dark sector are mass-degenerate and stable, and this makes them suitable as dark matter candidates. Our model also accounts for the matter-anti-matter asymmetry. The lepton flavour asymmetry is produced during CP-violating oscillations of the GeV-scale right-handed neutrinos, and converted to the baryon asymmetry by the electroweak sphalerons. All the characteristic scales in the model: the electro-weak, dark matter and the leptogenesis/neutrino mass scales, are generated radiatively, have a common origin and related to each other via scalar field couplings in perturbation theory.