The scotogenic model is a well motivated scenario that provides both an explanation for neutrino masses and for dark matter. We focus on a real scalar dark matter candidate in this model, produced through standard thermal freeze-out. We analyze the parameter space of the model compatible with the observed dark matter relic abundance, direct and indirect detection searches, limits from lepton flavour violating decays and constraints from the neutrino sector. As the mass differences of the dark matter with the neutral and charged states are found to be small, the new scalars and fermions of the theory will have macroscopic lifetimes, and could thus be potentially detected with long-lived particle signatures at colliders. We find regions in the parameter space to be - partially or fully -consistent with the dark matter relic abundance, and the prediction of a long-lived charged scalar or lightest neutral fermion in the scotogenic scenario, for dark matter masses below 500 GeV. We discuss on the collider phenomenology in some detail.
In this proceeding, I will address the possibility that the nature of dark matter is associated with neutrino mass generation. Focusing on an extension of the Standard Model where the light neutrino masses are generated radiatively, we study the properties of a dark matter candidate which is made stable by the same symmetry responsible for the radiative origin of neutrino masses. Also, the model studied proposes a dark matter candidate that could be both a neutral scalar or a fermion. I will discuss the phenomenology of both scenarios, studying the parameter space which allows to reproduce the observed dark matter abundance. I will also comment on the expected signals in direct detection experiments, via indirect detection probes and at colliders.
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