Correlating gravitational waves with W-boson mass, FIMP dark matter, and Majorana seesaw mechanism

Xuewen Liu; Shu-Yuan Guo; Bin Zhu; Ying Li

doi:10.1016/j.scib.2022.06.011

Correlating gravitational waves with W-boson mass, FIMP dark matter, and Majorana seesaw mechanism

Sci Bull (Beijing). 2022 Jul 30;67(14):1437-1442. doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2022.06.011. Epub 2022 Jun 17.

Authors

Xuewen Liu¹, Shu-Yuan Guo¹, Bin Zhu², Ying Li³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Yantai University, Yantai 264005, China.
² Department of Physics, Yantai University, Yantai 264005, China. Electronic address: zhubin@mail.nankai.edu.cn.
³ Department of Physics, Yantai University, Yantai 264005, China. Electronic address: liying@ytu.edu.cn.

PMID: 36546186
DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2022.06.011

Abstract

We study a minimal extension of the standard model by introducing three right-handed neutrinos and a new scotogenic scalar doublet, in which the mass splittings between neutral and charged components are responsible for the W-boson mass newly measured by the CDF Collaboration. This model can not only generate non-vanishing Majorana neutrino masses via the interaction of right-handed neutrinos and scotogenic scalars, but also explain the Universe's missing matter in the form of FIMP dark matter. We also study the influence of the mass splitting on the first order electroweak phase transition, and find that it can further enhance the transition strength and thus induce gravitational waves during the phase transition, which may be detected in the forthcoming detectors such as U-DECIGO.

Keywords: Dark matter; Electroweak phase transition; Gravitational waves; Neutrino; W boson mass.