# Radiatively scotogenic type-II seesaw and a relevant phenomenological analysis

## TL;DR

This paper proposes a radiative mechanism within a scotogenic type-II seesaw model to generate small lepton-number-violating couplings, addressing fine-tuning issues and analyzing phenomenological constraints and decay behaviors of Higgs triplet scalars.

## Contribution

It introduces a radiative origin for LNV terms in a scotogenic type-II seesaw model and explores its phenomenological implications under experimental constraints.

## Key findings

- Preferred $v_\Delta$ range is $10^{-5}-10^{-4}$ GeV.
- Mass difference between charged Higgses is less than 50 GeV.
- Three-body decays dominate when scalar masses are non-degenerate.

## Abstract

When a small vacuum expectation value of Higgs triplet ($v_\Delta$) in the type-II seesaw model is required to explain neutrino oscillation data, a fine-tuning issue occurs on the mass-dimension lepton-number-violation (LNV) scalar coupling. Using the scotogenic approach, we investigate how a small LNV term is arisen through a radiative correction when an $Z_2$-odd vector-like lepton ($X$) and an $Z_2$-odd right-handed Majorana lepton ($N$) are introduced to the type-II seesaw model. Due to the dark matter (DM) direct detection constraints, the available DM candidate is the right-handed Majorana particle, whose mass depends on and is close to the $m_X$ parameter. Combing the constraints from the DM measurements, the $h\to \gamma\gamma$ decay, and the oblique $T$-parameter, it is found that the preferred range of $v_\Delta$ is approximately in the region of $10^{-5}-10^{-4}$ GeV; the mass difference between the doubly and the singly charged Higgs is less than 50 GeV, and the influence on the $h\to Z\gamma$ is not significant. Using the constrained parameters, we analyze the decays of each Higgs triplet scalar in detail, including the possible three-body decays when the kinematic condition is allowed. It is found that with the exception of doubly charged Higgs, scalar mixing effects play an important role in the Higgs triplet two-body decays when the scalar masses are near-degenerate. In the non-degenerate mass region, the branching ratios of the Higgs triplet decays are dominated by the three-body decays.