# Probing New Physics Signals with Symmetry-Restored Yukawa Textures

## TL;DR

This paper develops a symmetry-restored Yukawa texture framework within a two-Higgs-doublet model to connect neutrino masses, dark matter, and lepton-flavor universality violations, providing a unified explanation for several anomalies.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel symmetry-restoration approach to Yukawa textures that naturally explains neutrino masses, dark matter, and flavor anomalies in a unified model.

## Key findings

- Neutrino masses generated by low-scale seesaw mechanism.
- Sterile neutrino as 7.1 keV dark matter candidate.
- Model accounts for R_K(*) and R_D(*) anomalies.

## Abstract

We implement a symmetry violation guideline into a two-Higgs-doublet model embedded with three right-handed neutrinos, and exploit the generic Yukawa structures of the model via a hypothetical symmetry restoration of a global $U_Q(1)^3\times U_L(1)^3$ symmetry. We then apply a mass-powered parametrization to construct the phenomenologically motivated Yukawa interactions, which enables us to incorporate correlatively the neutrino mass, dark matter, as well as the lepton-flavor universality violations in $R_{K^{(*)}}$ and $R_{D^{(*)}}$. Specifically, two atmospheric-scale neutrino masses are generated by a low-scale seesaw mechanism, while the much lighter one, being of $\mathcal{O}(10^{-6})~{\rm eV}$, is fixed by a $7.1~{\rm keV}$ sterile neutrino dark matter produced primordially by the freeze-in mechanism. On the other hand, the neutrino and the charged-lepton mass hierarchies encoded in the mass-powered textures can naturally account for the $R_{K^{(*)}}$ and the $R_{D^{(*)}}$ anomalies, respectively. As a further application, a milder discrepancy of the muon $g-2$ is observed, which has also been implied by the recently refined lattice results.