Tri-hypercharge versus tri-darkcharge
Abstract We propose a minimal, ultraviolet-complete, and renormalizable extension of the Standard Model, in which the three generations of ordinary fermions are distinguished by family-dependent hypercharges, while three right-handed neutrinos are separated by a dark gauge symmetry that is trivial for all Standard Model fields. This setup yields a fully flipped inert doublet model. The model naturally realizes a hybrid scotoseesaw mechanism that accounts for the smallness of neutrino masses and the largeness of lepton mixing. Simultaneously, it explains the stability and relic abundance of dark matter through a residual dark parity and addresses the hierarchies of charged fermion masses and the suppression of quark mixing via higher-dimensional operators involving high-scale scalar singlets and vector-like fermions. We explore the phenomenological implications of the model and derive constraints from electroweak precision tests, collider searches, flavor-changing processes, and observations of dark matter.
Authors
- Van Que Tran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4643-4050)
- A. E. Cárcamo Hernández (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2421-2732)
- Duong Van Loi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5537-1584)
- Duy Nguyen Tuan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5930-7718)
Institutions
- Millennium Institute (BR)
- Millennium Science Initiative (CL)
- Centro Científico Tecnológico de Valparaíso (CL)
- National Center for Theoretical Sciences (TW)
- Phenikaa University (VN)
- Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (EC)
- Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The European Physical Journal C
- Published
- 2025-10-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14855-x
- Primary Topic
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Foundation for Science and Technology Development
- Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia
- Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo