A radiative neutrino mass model with semi-annihilating boosted dark matter

A bstract Boosted dark matter can provide a distinctive signature of a non-minimal dark sector. In this work, we construct a radiative neutrino mass model that allows for the production of boosted dark matter in the present universe through semi-annihilation. A Dirac fermion serves as the dark matter candidate, which semi-annihilates into an anti-dark matter particle and a neutrino. Taking into account the relevant experimental and theoretical constraints, we find that the boosted dark matter can be probed by DARWIN if its mass lies in the range of 20–50 MeV and the semi-annihilation proceeds through a resonance with a tuning of $$ \mathcal{O}(0.1)\% $$ O 0.1 % . Furthermore, the monochromatic neutrino produced simultaneously with the boosted dark matter can also be detected at Hyper-Kamiokande and DUNE in part of the allowed parameter space.