Scotogenic dark matter stability from gauged matter parity

Abstract

We explore the idea that dark matter stability results from the presence of a matter-parity symmetry, arising naturally as a consequence of the spontaneous breaking of an extended $\mathrm{SU}(3)\otimes \mathrm{SU}(3{)}_{\mathrm{L}}\otimes \mathrm{U}(1{)}_{\mathrm{X}}\otimes \mathrm{U}(1{)}_{\mathrm{N}}$ electroweak gauge symmetry with fully gauged B-L. Using this framework we construct a theory for scotogenic dark matter and analyze its main features.

Comments: PLB published version. 14 pages, 2 figures, 1 table