# Dark matter as the origin of neutrino mass in the inverse seesaw mechanism

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel model where dark matter influences neutrino mass generation through an inverse seesaw mechanism, linking dark sector physics with neutrino phenomenology and lepton flavor violation.

## Contribution

It presents a new dark sector-based variant of the scotogenic model within the inverse seesaw framework, exploring lepton number violation and related phenomenology.

## Key findings

- Dark matter can seed neutrino masses in the inverse seesaw model.
- The model predicts invisible Higgs decays with majoron emission.
- Novel charged lepton flavor violation signatures are identified.

## Abstract

We propose that neutrino masses are "seeded" by a dark sector within the inverse seesaw mechanism. This way we have a new, "hidden", variant of the scotogenic scenario for radiative neutrino masses. We discuss both explicit and dynamical lepton number violation. In addition to invisible Higgs decays with majoron emission, we discuss in detail the pheneomenolgy of dark matter, as well as the novel features associated to charged lepton flavour violation, and neutrino physics.