Quasi-Dirac fermion: A source of neutrino mass and dark matter

Abstract

Neutral vectorlike fermion as inspired by unified theories might become quasi-Dirac states at TeV due to a violation in lepton-like symmetry. It is shown that such quasi-Dirac fermions can properly achieve radiative neutrino mass generation and dark matter stability. Indeed, the small splitting of quasi-Dirac masses, i.e. $\Delta M/M\ll 1$, suitably suppresses neutrino mass to be small in order to allow dark matter annihilation and detection to be appropriate to experiment as well as charged lepton flavor violation limit.