Eur. Phys. J. C (2014) 74: 2774
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2774-x

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Low-scale neutrino seesaw mechanism and scalar dark matter

¹ INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
² SISSA, via Bonomea 265, 34136 , Trieste, Italy
³ Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

^* e-mail: marco@sissa.it

Received: 13 December 2013
Accepted: 5 February 2014
Published online: 20 February 2014

Abstract

We discuss how two birds—the little hierarchy problem of low-scale type-I seesaw models and the search for a viable dark matter candidate—are (proverbially) killed by one stone: a new inert scalar state.