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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Accidental stability of dark matter

Luís LavouraJose W.f. ValleStefano Morisi

subject

PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physics010308 nuclear & particles physicsDark matterHigh Energy Physics::Phenomenologyneutrino masses and mixingFOS: Physical sciencesFísicaSymmetry group01 natural sciencesdark matterHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Accidental0103 physical sciencesHiggs boson010306 general physicsPhenomenology (particle physics)flavour symmetry

description

We propose that dark matter is stable as a consequence of an accidental Z(2) that results from a flavour symmetry group which is the double-cover group of the symmetry group of one of the regular geometric solids. Although model-dependent, the phenomenology resembles that of a generic >inert Higgs> dark matter scheme.

10.1007/jhep02(2013)118http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2013)118