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We propose and study a novel extension of the Standard Model based on the B−L gauge symmetry that can account for dark matter and neutrino masses. In this model, right-handed neutrinos are absent and the gauge anomalies are canceled instead by four chiral fermions with fractional B − L charges. After the breaking of U(1) B−L , these fermions arrange themselves into two Dirac particles, the lightest of which is automatically stable and plays the role of the dark matter. We determine the regions of the parameter space consistent with the observed dark matter density and show that they can be partially probed via direct and indirect dark matter detection or collider searches at the LHC. Neutrino masses, on the other hand, can be explained by a variant of the type-II seesaw mechanism involving one of the two scalar fields responsible for the dark matter mass.
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Patra, S., Rodejohann, W. & Yaguna, C.E. A new B − L model without right-handed neutrinos. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 76 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2016)076
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