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Isaac Bamwidhi

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Neutrino mass, scalar dark matter, and collider signatures in a radiative doublet-triplet model

We explore a radiative neutrino mass model based on the topology T4-3-i, which is a one-loop completion of the Weinberg operator. We focus on its T4-3-i-C1 realization, containing an inert scalar doublet, a real scalar triplet, a Majorana fermion triplet, and a Dirac singlet fermion. An exact $Z_2$ symmetry forbids the tree-level type-III term and stabilizes the lightest $Z_2$-odd particle, leaving the one-loop topology as the leading source of neutrino mass. The model accomodate a neutral {\it CP}-even scalar dark matter candidate and predicts a rank two neutrino mass matrix, and thus one neutrino is massless. A combined analysis incorporating theoretical and experimental constraints reveals viable solutions to both neutrino mass orderings, with the inverted ordering predicting larger values of $m_{\beta\beta}$, $m_\beta$, and $\sum_i m_i$, thereby enhancing its testability through future beta-decay, neutrinoless double beta decay, and cosmological probes. Within the same viable parameter region, the observed dark matter relic abundance is accounted for by annihilation and coannihilation processes, while the electroweak triplet sector gives rise to prompt, displaced, or long-lived particle signatures, offering complementary collider probes to dark matter and low-energy searches.

hep-ph

Isocurvature modes and non-Gaussianity in affine inflation

Inflationary dynamics driven by multiple fields, especially with nonminimal couplings, allow for highly interesting features such as isocurvature, non-Gaussianity, and preheating. In this paper, we study two-field inflation in the context of purely affine gravity, where the metrical structure results from the dynamics of the spacetime affine connection. We introduce a covariant formulation in the new framework and show that it leads to a curved field space which can produce conspicuous departure from the purely metric gravity. In the case where the fields are canonical, the field manifold gains a conformally flat shape. Interestingly, while the manifold is generally curved, it is possible to be flattened by allowing specific non-canonical field kinetic terms. This in turn simplifies the inflationary dynamics significantly while allowing for new predictions due to the effects of the nonminimal coupling function on the potential solely. We use this new feature in studying two-field inflation driven by quartic potentials for given parameter constants. We perform a numerical solution of the slow-roll dynamics and track the possible non-Gaussianity. We focus on field parameters that allow for spectral indices within the favored region of the Planck results. These are associated to tiny tensor-to-scalar ratios, $r \sim 10^{-6}$ for single field and $r \sim 10^{-4}$ for two-fields. We also show that two-field Higgs inflation may favor a curved field manifold.

gr-qc