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New interactions of neutrinos can stop them from free streaming even after the weak interaction freeze-out. This results in a phase shift in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) acoustic peaks which can alleviate the Hubble tension. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-12 Subhajit Ghosh , Rishi Khatri , Tuhin S. Roy

We investigate signatures of neutrino scattering in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and matter power spectra, and the extent to which present cosmological data can distinguish between a free streaming or tightly coupled fluid of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicole F. Bell , Elena Pierpaoli , Kris Sigurdson

After their generation, cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves propagate nearly freely but for the expansion of the Universe and the anisotropic stress of free-streaming particles. Primordial signals -- both that from inflation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Marilena Loverde , Zachary J. Weiner

We propose signals in the cosmic microwave background to probe the type and spectrum of neutrino masses. In theories that have spontaneous breaking of approximate lepton flavor symmetries at or below the weak scale, light pseudo-Goldstone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Chacko , Lawrence J. Hall , Takemichi Okui , Steven J. Oliver

We demonstrate that the suppression in the lensing power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) caused by massive neutrinos can be mimicked by dark matter-baryon interactions at the precision of next-generation CMB experiments.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Danny Marfatia , Jorge F. Soriano

A light ($m_{\nu d} \lesssim $ MeV) dark fermion mixing with the Standard Model neutrinos can naturally equilibrate with the neutrinos via oscillations and scattering. In the presence of dark sector interactions, production of dark fermions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Daniel Aloni , Melissa Joseph , Martin Schmaltz , Neal Weiner

High-energy neutrinos from astrophysical transients serve as a probe of neutrino physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, nonstandard interaction of neutrinos with the cosmic neutrino background or dark matter (DM) may have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 Ryan Eskenasy , Ali Kheirandish , Kohta Murase

We study the influence of the temperature-dependent interaction between dark matter (DM) and neutrinos on the measurement of cosmological parameters. We pay attention to the neutrino mass effects, so that the derivation of Boltzmann…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Ren-Peng Zhou , Da Huang

We explore an extension of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model by including an interaction between neutrinos and dark matter, and making use of the ground based telescope data of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from the Atacama Cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-07 Philippe Brax , Carsten van de Bruck , Eleonora Di Valentino , William Giarè , Sebastian Trojanowski

Perturbations in the cosmic neutrino background produce a characteristic phase shift in the acoustic oscillations imprinted in the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), providing a unique observational probe of neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Gabriele Montefalcone , Subhajit Ghosh , Kimberly K. Boddy , Daven Wei Ren Ho , Yuhsin Tsai

Extra radiation injection after neutrino decoupling in the early Universe contributes to the effective number of neutrino species that can be constrained by the cosmic microwave background (CMB). However, any effective neutrino number…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Shao-Ping Li , Jens Chluba

A B-mode polarization signal in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is widely regarded as smoking gun evidence for gravitational waves produced during inflation. Here, we demonstrate that tensor perturbations sourced during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Kylar Greene , Aurora Ireland , Gordan Krnjaic , Yuhsin Tsai

In this work we investigate the possibility that dark matter and (massive) neutrinos can interact via a simple, constant cross section. Building on previous numerical efforts, we constrain this model with CMB, BAO and, in particular,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Deanna C. Hooper , Matteo Lucca

Primordial magnetic fields and massive neutrinos can leave an interesting signal in the CMB temperature and polarization. We perform a systematic analysis of general perturbations in the radiation-dominated universe, accounting for any…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 J. Richard Shaw , Antony Lewis

Neutrinos are often considered as a portal to new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) and might possess phenomenologically interesting interactions with dark matter (DM). This paper examines the cosmological imprints of DM that interacts…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Isaac R. Wang , Xun-Jie Xu

Neutrino-pair exchange induces a neutrino force that can drive dark matter (DM) self-interactions and impact small-scale structure formation. In the presence of the cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B), this force can be modified, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 Pawin Ittisamai , Chakrit Pongkitivanichkul , Muhammaddaniya Sutwilai , Nakorn Thongyoi , Patipan Uttayarat

Neutrinos with Standard Model interactions free-stream in the early Universe, leaving a distinct phase shift in the pattern of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). When isolated, this phase shift allows one to robustly infer the presence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Abbé M. Whitford , Cullan Howlett , Tamara M. Davis , David Camarena , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine

An interaction between dark matter and dark energy, proportional to the product of their energy densities, results in a scaling behavior of the ratio of these densities with respect to the scale factor of the Robertson-Walker metric. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 R. F. vom Marttens , L. Casarini , W. S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , W. Zimdahl

We study the imprint of a coupling of scalar dark energy to photon on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. The time-evolving field value as well as the perturbation of the scalar generically induce $B$-mode polarization.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-26 Seokcheon Lee , Guo-Chin Liu , Kin-Wang Ng

We investigate a model where neutrinos are strongly coupled to a new, light scalar field. In this model neutrinos annihilate as soon as they become non-relativistic in the early universe, and a non-zero neutrino mass has a marginal effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Steen Hannestad
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