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Majorons are (pseudo-)Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with lepton number symmetry breaking due to the Majorana mass term of neutrinos introduced in the seesaw mechanism. They are good dark matter candidates since their lifetime is suppressed by the lepton number breaking scale. We update constraints and discuss future prospects on majoron dark matter in the singlet majoron models based on neutrino, gamma-ray, and cosmic-ray telescopes in the mass region of MeV–10 TeV.
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We would like to thank Yoshihiko Abe and Yu Hamada for valuable discussions. We also thank Julian Heeck, Juntaro Wada, Keiichi Watanabe, Masahide Yamaguchi and the anonymous referee for useful comments. KA is supported by IBS under the project code, IBS-R018-D1. MN is supported by IBS under the project code, IBS-R018-D3.
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Akita, K., Niibo, M. Updated constraints and future prospects on majoron dark matter. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 132 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2023)132
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