2020/05/31 by Alexandra Gaviria, Robinson Longas, Andrés Rivera
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Annihilation #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Fermion #Lepton #Neutrino #Parameter space #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phenomenology (philosophy) #Warm dark matter #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217751x20501900
14 pages, 5 figures
openalex created_date 2020/06/05 · openalex publication_date 2020/11/10 · arxiv created 2021/02/17 · arxiv updated 2021/02/18 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The inert Zee model is an extension of the Zee model for neutrino masses. This new model explains the dark matter relic abundance, generates a one-loop neutrino masses and forbids tree-level Higgs-mediated flavor changing neutral currents. Although the dark matter phenomenology of the model is similar to that of the inert doublet model, the presence of new vector-like fermions opens the lepton portal as a new dark matter annihilation channel. We study the impact of this new portal in the low-mass regime and show the parameter space allowed by direct and indirect searches of dark matter. Remarkably, the region for [Formula: see text] GeV is recovered for [Formula: see text]. We also show that future experiments like LZ and DARWIN could probe a large region of the parameter space of the model.