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Boomerang mechanism explaining the excess radio background

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-10-14 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We propose a {\em boomerang mechanism} for the explanation of the excess radio background detected by ARCADE. In an early stage, at a temperature T100keVT \sim 100\,{\rm keV}, a fraction of relic neutrinos is resonantly converted into dark neutrinos by mixing induced by a pre-existing lepton asymmetry. Dark neutrinos decay much later into a dark photon, mixed with photon, and a dark fermion, with a lifetime longer than the age of the Universe, as required by a solution to the excess radio background. This scenario circumvents the upper bound on the neutrino magnetic moment but still implies a testable lower bound.

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@article{arxiv.2509.03441,
  title  = {Boomerang mechanism explaining the excess radio background},
  author = {Bhupal Dev and Pasquale Di Bari and Ivan Martinez-Soler and Rishav Roshan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.03441},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures; v2: added 5 Ref.'s and 1 final remark on stellar constraints