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Reconciling Dark Matter, Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-01 v1

Abstract

We present models that can reconcile the solar and atmospheric neutrino data with the existence of a hot dark matter component in the universe. This dark matter is a quasi-Dirac neutrino whose mass mDMm_{DM} arises at the one-loop level. The solar neutrino deficit is explained via nonadiabatic conversions of electron neutrino to a sterile neutrino and the atmospheric neutrino data via maximal muon neutrino to tau neutrino oscillations generated by higher order loop diagrams. For mDM30m_{DM} \sim 30 eV the radiative neutrino decay can lead to photons that can ionize interstellar hydrogen. In one of the models one can have observable νe\nu_e to ντ\nu_\tau oscillation rates, with no appreciable muon neutrino oscillations at accelerator experiments. In addition, there can be observable rates for tau number violating processes such as τ3e\tau \to 3e and τe+γ\tau \to e + \gamma. In the other model one can have sizeable νe\nu_e to νμ\nu_\mu oscillation rates, as well as sizeable rates for muon number violating processes such as μe+γ\mu \to e + \gamma, μe+majoron\mu \to e + majoron and μ3e\mu \to 3e.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9302316,
  title  = {Reconciling Dark Matter, Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos},
  author = {J. T. Peltoniemi and J. W. F. Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9302316},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

15 pages, 2 figures available from the authors, FTUV/93-04, IFIC/93-04