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Neutrino As The Dark Force

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-10-13 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We point out a novel role for the Standard Model neutrino in dark matter phenomenology where the exchange of neutrinos generates a long-range potential between dark matter particles. The resulting dark matter self interaction could be sufficiently strong to impact small-scale structure formation, without the need of any dark force carrier. This is a generic feature of theories where dark matter couples to the visible sector through the neutrino portal. It is highly testable with improved decay rate measurements at future ZZ, Higgs, and τ\tau factories, as well as precision cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.2106.08339,
  title  = {Neutrino As The Dark Force},
  author = {Nicholas Orlofsky and Yue Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08339},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures; v2: added Lyman-alpha and references

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