Motivated by the upcoming Higgs analyses, we investigate the importance of the complementarity of the Higgs boson chase on the low-mass weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) search in direct detection experiments and the gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Center measured by the Fermi-LAT telescope in the context of the SU(3)c$\bigotimes${}SU(3)L$\bigotimes${}U(1)N. We obtain the relic abundance, thermal cross section, and the WIMP-nucleon cross section in the low-mass regime and network them with the branching ratios (BRs) of the Higgs boson in the model. We conclude that the Higgs boson search has a profound connection to the dark matter problem in our model, in particular for the case that (MWIMPMH/2 and, consequently, ruling out any attempt to explain the Fermi-LAT observations, although still offering a region of the parameter space consistent with the current bounds. Lastly, we show that our model has a Standard Model-like Higgs boson for the regime that MWIMP>MH/2, by computing the BRs into bb, $\gamma${}$\gamma${} and $\tau${}$\tau${}.

Extending the standard model with three right-handed neutrinos ($N_k$) and a second Higgs doublet ($\eta$), odd under the discrete parity symmetry $Z_2$, Majorana neutrino masses can be generated at 1-loop order. In the resulting model, the lightest stable particle, either a boson or a fermion, might be a dark matter candidate. Here we assume a specific mass spectrum ($M_1\ll M_2 < M_3 < m_\eta$) and derive its consequences for dark matter and collider phenomenology. We show that (i) the lightest right-handed neutrino is a warm dark matter particle that can give a $\sim$10% contribution to the dark matter density; (ii) several decay branching ratios of the charged scalar can be predicted from measured neutrino data. Especially interesting is that large lepton flavour violating rates in muon and tau final states are expected. Finally, we derive upper bounds on the right-handed neutrino Yukawa couplings from the current experimental limit on $Br(\mu\to e\gamma)$.Comment: 25 pages, 7 figures. A few clarifications and references added, collider physics improved, conclusions unchanged. Version matches publication in PRD (Title changed in journal

When the singlet-doublet fermion dark matter model is extended with additional $Z_2$-odd real singlet scalars, neutrino masses and mixings can be generated at the one-loop level. In this work, we discuss the salient features arising from the combination of the two resulting simplified dark matter models. When the lightest $Z_2$-odd particle is a scalar singlet, $\mathrm{Br}(\mu \to e\gamma )$ could be measurable provided that the singlet-doublet fermion mixing is small enough. In this scenario, the new decay channels of vector-like fermions into scalars can also generate interesting leptonic plus missing transverse energy signals at the LHC. On the other hand, in the case of doublet-like fermion dark matter, scalar coannihilations lead to an increase in the relic density which allows one to lower the bound of doublet-like fermion dark matter.

Neutrinos may be Dirac particles of which the masses arise radiatively at one loop, naturally explaining their small values. In this work, we show that all the one-loop realizations of the dimension-5 operator to effectively generate Dirac neutrino masses can be implemented by using a single local symmetry: $U(1{)}_{B-L}$. Since this symmetry is anomalous, new chiral fermions, charged under $B-L$, are required. The minimal model consistent with neutrino data includes three chiral fermions, two of them with the same lepton number. The next minimal models contain five chiral fermions, and their $B-L$ charges can be fixed by requiring a dark matter candidate in the spectrum. We list the full particle content as well as the relevant Lagrangian terms for each of these models. They are new and simple models that can simultaneously accommodate Dirac neutrino masses (at one loop) and dark matter without invoking any discrete symmetries.

We propose a simple theory for the idea that cosmological dark matter (DM) may be present today mainly in the form of stable neutral hadronic thermal relics. In our model, neutrino masses arise radiatively from the exchange of colored DM constituents, giving a common origin for both dark matter and neutrino mass. The exact conservation of $B-L$ symmetry ensures dark matter stability and the Dirac nature of neutrinos. The theory can be falsified by dark matter nuclear recoil direct detection experiments, leading also to possible signals at a next generation hadron collider.