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Inverse Seesaw, dark matter and the Hubble tension

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-11-17 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider the inverse Seesaw scenario for neutrino masses with the approximate Lepton number symmetry broken dynamically by a scalar with Lepton number two. We show that the Majoron associated to the spontaneous symmetry breaking can alleviate the Hubble tension through its contribution to ΔNeff\Delta N_\text{eff} and late decays to neutrinos. Among the additional fermionic states required for realizing the inverse Seesaw mechanism, sterile neutrinos at the keV-MeV scale can account for all the dark matter component of the Universe if produced via freeze-in from the decays of heavier degrees of freedom.

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@article{arxiv.2106.05298,
  title  = {Inverse Seesaw, dark matter and the Hubble tension},
  author = {Enrique Fernandez-Martinez and Mathias Pierre and Emanuelle Pinsard and Salvador Rosauro-Alcaraz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05298},
  year   = {2021}
}

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22 pages, 2 figures