3-8 June 2012
Hotel Fiesta Americana
Mexico/General timezone
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Contribution

Hotel Fiesta Americana - Yucatán
Particles

Discrete dark matter

Speakers

  • Dr. Eduardo PEINADO

Primary authors

  • Dr. Eduardo PEINADO (AHEP Group, Instituto de Física Corpuscular – C.S.I.C./Universitat de València)

Abstract content

The existence of non-baryonic Dark Matter (DM) is well established by cosmological and astrophysical probes. However, despite the great experimental ef ort over many years, its nature still remains elusive. Elucidating the long-standing puzzle of the nature of dark matter constitutes one of the most important challenges of modern cosmology and particle physics. I will present a model where the stability of DM arises as a remnant of a non-Abelian discrete flavor symmetry. In this framework, the left-handed matter transform non-trivially under the flavor group Delta(54). Neutrino masses arise from type-II seesaw, with an inverse hierarchy spectrum and a non-trivial correlation between neutrino oscillation parameters, consistent with the recent Daya-Bay and RENO reactor angle measurements.