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Why neutrino patterns emerge from dark matter and flavor violation
Avinanda Chaudhuri
May 21, 2026
In the scotopic model, where dark matter generates neutrino masses, a parameter scan reveals that certain neutrino mixing patterns emerge automatically from consistency with dark matter and lepton flavor violation constraints. Rather than imposing flavor symmetries by hand, the theory dynamically suppresses specific mixing angles when reconciling radiative mass generation with observed dark matter density and rare decays. This suggests flavor structure is a side effect of the physics, not an assumption built in at the start.
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