Neutrino masses in the minimal gauged $(B-L)$ supersymmetry

TL;DR

This paper analyzes how radiative corrections in a minimal supersymmetric model with gauged B-L symmetry generate neutrino masses, including keV sterile neutrinos that could serve as dark matter, aligning with experimental data.

Contribution

It provides a detailed calculation of one-loop corrections to neutrino masses in a minimal B-L supersymmetric model, highlighting the emergence of keV sterile neutrinos as dark matter candidates.

Findings

Sterile neutrinos acquire keV-scale masses.

Active neutrino mixing angles match experimental data.

Model predicts viable dark matter candidate in sterile neutrinos.

Abstract

We present the radiative corrections to neutrino masses in a minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model with local $U(1)_{B-L}$ symmetry. At tree level, three tiny active neutrinos and two nearly massless sterile neutrinos can be obtained through the seesaw mechanism. Considering the one-loop corrections to the neutrino masses, the numerical results indicate that two sterile neutrinos obtain ${\rm KeV}$ masses and the small active-sterile neutrino mixing angles. The lighter sterile neutrino is a very interesting dark matter candidate in cosmology. Meanwhile the active neutrinos mixing angles and mass squared differences agree with present experimental data.