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Multiple cosmological observations hint at neutrino self-interactions beyond the Standard Model, yet such interactions face severe constraints from terrestrial experiments. We resolve this tension by introducing a model where active…

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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

Short-baseline neutrino anomalies suggest the existence of low-mass ( m \sim O(1)~eV) sterile neutrinos \nu_s. These would be efficiently produced in the early universe by oscillations with active neutrino species, leading to a thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Ninetta Saviano , Ofelia Pisanti , Gianpiero Mangano , Alessandro Mirizzi

We update constraints on a simple model of self-interacting neutrinos involving a heavy scalar mediator with universal flavor coupling. According to past literature, such a model is allowed by Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Adèle Poudou , Théo Simon , Thomas Montandon , Elsa M. Teixeira , Vivian Poulin

Recent DESI BAO measurements, combined with CMB data, reveal a tension within the $\Lambda$CDM model that leads to a discrepancy between cosmological and laboratory bounds on the summed neutrino mass. We show that a recoupled interacting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Ravi Kumar Sharma , Maria Archidiacono , Julien Lesgourgues

We consider a fermionic dark matter candidate interacting via a scalar mediator coupled with the Standard Model through a Higgs portal. We consider general setting including both scalar and pseudoscalar interactions between the scalar and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-12 Kimmo Kainulainen , Kimmo Tuominen , Ville Vaskonen

Several anomalies in neutrino oscillation experiments point to the existence of a $\sim 1\,$eV sterile neutrino $\nu_s$ mixing with $\nu_e$ at the level of $U_{e4}\cong 0.1$, but such a neutrino is strongly disfavored by constraints on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-15 James M. Cline

The self-interacting neutrino hypothesis is well motivated for addressing the tension between the origin of sterile neutrino dark matter and indirect detection constraints. It can also result in a number of testable signals from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-01 Kevin J. Kelly , Manibrata Sen , Yue Zhang

Neutrino-electron scattering is a purely leptonic fundamental interaction and therefore provides an important channel to test the Standard Model, especially at the low energy-momentum transfer regime. We derived constraints on neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-03-08 M. Deniz , B. Sevda , S. Kerman , A. Ajjaq , L. Singh , H. T. Wong , M. Zeyrek

Neutrinos offer a window to physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, with TeV-PeV energies, may provide evidence of new, "secret" neutrino-neutrino interactions that are stronger than ordinary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-23 Mauricio Bustamante , Charlotte Amalie Rosenstroem , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

New neutrino interactions beyond the Standard Model (BSM) have been of much interest in not only particle physics but also cosmology and astroparticle physics. We numerically investigate the time delay distribution of astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-24 Jose Alonso Carpio , Kohta Murase

We investigate new physics effects on coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering within the framework of nonstandard interactions and generalized neutrino interactions. Additionally, we examine the possibility of light mediators from a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-08 S. Karadağ , M. Deniz , S. Karmakar , M. K. Singh , M. Demirci , Greeshma C. , H. B. Li , S. T. Lin , M. F. Mustamin , V. Sharma , L. Singh , M. K. Singh , V. Singh , H. T. Wong

Recent results from neutrino experiments show evidence for light sterile neutrinos which do not have any Standard Model interactions. In this work we study the hidden interaction of sterile neutrinos with an "MeV scale" gauge boson (the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 Zahra Tabrizi , O. L. G. Peres

The interacting dark energy model could propose a effective way to avoid the coincidence problem. In this paper, dark energy is taken as a fluid with a constant equation of state parameter $w_x$. In a general gauge, we could obtain two sets…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-10 Weiqiang Yang , Lixin Xu

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

Precision measurements of the acoustic peaks of the cosmic microwave background indicate that neutrinos must be freely streaming at the photon decoupling epoch when T ~ 0.3 eV. This requirement implies restrictive limits on ``secret…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Steen Hannestad , Georg Raffelt

Recent explorations of the cosmic microwave background and the large-scale structure of the universe have indicated a preference for sizable neutrino self-interactions, much stronger than what the Standard Model offers. When interpreted in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-07 Saeid Foroughi-Abari , Kevin J. Kelly , Mudit Rai , Yue Zhang

We use the constraints arising from primordial nucleosynthesis to bound the strength $F$ of non-standard neutrino-neutrino interactions, when the right-handed neutrinos participate in the interaction. We find $F < 3 \times 10^{-3}\ G_F$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Eduard Massó , Ramon Toldrà

The light neutrino masses are at present most stringently constraint via cosmological probes. In particular the Planck collaboration reports $ \sum m_\nu \leq 0.12\,\mathrm{eV}$ at $95\%$ CL within the standard cosmological model. This is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-17 Stefan Sandner

Effective field theory of dark matter fluid on large scales predicts the presence of viscosity of the order of $10^{-6} H_0 M_P^2$. It has been shown that this magnitude of viscosities can resolve the discordance between large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Sampurn Anand , Prakrut Chaubal , Arindam Mazumdar , Subhendra Mohanty , Priyank Parashari