Predictive Model for Radiatively Induced Neutrino Masses and Mixings with Dark Matter

Abstract

A minimal extension of the standard model to naturally generate small neutrino masses and provide a dark matter candidate is proposed. The dark matter particle is part of a new scalar doublet field that plays a crucial role in radiatively generating neutrino masses. The symmetry that stabilizes the dark matter also suppresses neutrino masses to appear first at three-loop level. Without the need of right-handed neutrinos or other very heavy new fields, this offers an attractive explanation of the hierarchy between the electroweak and neutrino mass scales. The model has distinct verifiable predictions for the neutrino masses, flavor mixing angles, colliders and dark matter signals.

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures; Matches the published version including its Erratum of Eq. 4, 8 and updated benchmark point. Conclusions unchanged