The Standard Model of quarks and leptons is a great achievement. However, this model is incomplete: it does not include the observed dark matter, neutrino masses and mixings, the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe, the current acceleration of the expansion of the universe, nor inflation. We seek a minimal extension of the Standard Model to account for these observations. We constrain its parameters and discuss potential tests for this updated “New Minimal Standard Model”.
KeywordsNew Minimal Standard ModelDark MatterNeutrino OscillationsLeptogenesisInflation
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