Spontaneous Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking renders sterile neutrino, axion and $\chi$boson to be candidates for dark matter particles.
2020
We study the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry of sterile right-handed neutrino sector and the gauge symmetries of the Standard Model (SM). Due to four-fermion interactions, spontaneous breaking of these symmetries at the electroweak scale generates top-quark Dirac mass and sterile neutrino Majorana mass. The top quark channels yields massive Higgs, $W^\pm$ and $Z^0$ bosons. The sterile neutrino channel yields the heaviest sterile neutrino Majorana mass, sterile Nambu-Goldstone axion (or majoron) and massive scalar $\chi$boson ($m_\chi\sim 10^2$ GeV). Their tiny couplings to SM particles are effectively induced by four-fermion operators. We show that such sterile axion is the PQ solution to the strong CP problem. The lightest sterile neutrino ($m_N^e\sim 10^2$ keV), sterile QCD axion ($m_a< 10^{-6}$ eV, $g_{a\gamma}< 10^{-13} {\rm GeV}^{-1}$) and $\chi$boson can be dark matter particle candidates, for their tiny couplings and long lifetimes inferred from the Xenon1T experiment. The axion and $\chi$boson couplings to SM particles are below the values reached by current laboratory experiments and astrophysical observations for directly or indirectly detecting dark matter particles.
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