Computer tools in particle physics

- Lecture 2 : SPheno -

Avelino Vicente
IFIC – CSIC / U. Valencia

On-line course
IIP - UFRN
May 6-8 2020

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 SARAH: Input for other codes

SARAH SPheno

Chuck Norris fact of the day

Chuck Norris counted to
infinity... twice

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 SPheno

SPheno [Porod, Staub]

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 SPheno

SPheno [Porod, Staub]

SPheno is a Fortran code. It provides routines for the numerical evaluation of

all vertices, masses and decay modes in a given model.

SARAH SPheno
Analytics Numerics

http://spheno.hepforge.org/

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 Scotogenic: benchmark point
BS1 benchmark point

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Backup
 The scotogenic model
[Ernest Ma, 2006] 

σκότος
skotos = darkness

Inert (or dark) doublet Dark

Matter!

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 The scotogenic model
[Ernest Ma, 2006] 

Inert scalar sector:

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 Radiative neutrino masses
[Ernest Ma, 2006] 
Tree-level:
Forbidden by the symmetry 1-loop neutrino masses:

Radiative generation of
neutrino masses

Additional
loop suppression

Dark particles in
the loop
[Other variations in
Restrepo et al, 2013] 

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 Radiative neutrino masses
[Ernest Ma, 2006] 
[See also Merle, Platscher, 2015]

Modified
Casas-Ibarra parameterization
[Toma, Vicente, 2013]

Mixing angles

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