Inert Higgs Doublet Dark Matter in Type-II Seesaw

Chuan-Hung Chen, Takaaki Nomura
2016 Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings  
Weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) as a dark matter (DM) candidate is further inspired by recent AMS-02 data, which confirm the excess of positron fraction observed earlier by PAMELA and Fermi-LAT experiments. Additionally, the excess of positron+electron flux is still significant in the measurement of Fermi-LAT. For solving the problem of massive neutrinos and observed excess of cosmic-ray by DM annihilation, we study the model with an inert Higgs doublet (IHD) in the framework of
more » ... II seesaw mechanism by imposing a Z 2 symmetry on the IHD, where the lightest particle of IHD is the DM candidate while the neutrino masses origin from the Higgs triplet in type-II seesaw model. We calculate the cosmic-ray production in our model and find that if leptonic triplet decays are dominant, the observed excess of positron/electron flux could be explained well in normal ordered neutrino mass spectrum, when the constraints of DM relic density and comic-ray antiproton spectrum are taken into account.
doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.387 fatcat:r6lquejy6jdmzcgzhusacxyyx4