Light neutrinos, Dark matter and leptogenesis near electroweak scale and $Z_4$ symmetry

TL;DR

This paper explores a $Z_4$ symmetric Type I seesaw model that explains neutrino oscillation data, dark matter, and baryogenesis near the electroweak scale with minimal parameters.

Contribution

It introduces a $Z_4$ symmetry framework that simultaneously accounts for neutrino properties, dark matter, and leptogenesis with few parameters.

Findings

Neutrino oscillation parameters fit within 3σ confidence level.

Lightest right-handed neutrino can serve as dark matter via freeze-in.

Resonant leptogenesis explains baryon asymmetry with heavy neutrino decays.

Abstract

Considering $Z_4$ symmetry in Type I seesaw scenario, one could obtain mass-squared differences of light neutrinos, mixings and $CP$ violating phase within $3 \sigma$ confidence level based on neutrino oscillation data. This is possible with only three independent complex parameters for allowed Yukawa couplings and one real mass parameter for heavy right handed neutrino fields around electroweak scale. After considering only three more real parameters as coming from small soft-symmetry breaking terms, the lightest right handed neutrino could be considered as dark matter candidate via freeze-in mechanism and the other two heavier right handed neutrinos through their decays, could generate the baryonic asymmetry of the universe naturally via resonant leptogenesis.