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In this study, we investigate the constraints on secret self-interactions of neutrinos by examining the impact of radiative scattering of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos. These neutrinos are produced from the decay of superheavy dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-30 Mansi Dhuria , Bishnu Gupta Teli

We present new constraints on neutrino secret interactions ($\nu$SI) by studying high-energy neutrinos from well-known astrophysical sources, such as SN1987A, the blazars TXS $0506+056$ and PKS $0735+178$, the active galaxy NGC 1068, and…

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We update a previous investigation of cosmological effects of a non-standard interaction between neutrinos and dark matter. Parameterizing the elastic-scattering cross section between the two species as a function of the temperature of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-04 P. Serra , F. Zalamea , A. Cooray , G. Mangano , A. Melchiorri

In light of the recent BICEP2 B-mode polarization detection, which implies a large inflationary tensor-to-scalar ratio r_{0.05}=0.2^{+0.07}_{-0.05}, we re-examine the evidence for an extra sterile massive neutrino, originally invoked to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-08 Cora Dvorkin , Mark Wyman , Douglas H. Rudd , Wayne Hu

Certain inflationary models like Natural inflation (NI) and Coleman-Weinberg inflation (CWI) are disfavoured by cosmological data in the standard $\Lambda\textrm{CDM}+r$ model (where $r$ is the scalar-to-tensor ratio), as these inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-11 Shouvik Roy Choudhury , Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram

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

Exotic self-interactions among the Standard-Model neutrinos have been proposed as a potential reason behind the tension in the expansion rate, H0, of the universe inferred from different observations. We constrain this proposal using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-13 Kun-Feng Lyu , Emmanuel Stamou , Lian-Tao Wang

It is generally expected that adding light sterile species would increase the effective number of neutrinos, $N_{eff}$. In this paper we discuss a scenario that $N_{eff}$ can actually decrease due to the neutrino oscillation effect if…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-25 Yong Tang

Light sterile neutrinos can be excited by oscillations with active neutrinos in the early universe. Their properties can be constrained by their contribution as extra-radiation, parameterized in terms of the effective number of neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Alessandro Mirizzi , Gianpiero Mangano , Ninetta Saviano , Enrico Borriello , Carlo Giunti , Gennaro Miele , Ofelia Pisanti

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

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

The answer is Yes! We indeed find that interacting dark energy can alleviate the current tension on the value of the Hubble constant $H_0$ between the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies constraints obtained from the Planck satellite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena

The recent Cosmic Microwave Background data from the Planck satellite experiment, when combined with HST determinations of the Hubble constant, are compatible with a larger, non-standard, number of relativistic degrees of freedom at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-05 Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri

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

Self-interacting neutrinos provide an intriguing extension to the Standard Model, motivated by both particle physics and cosmology. Recent cosmological analyses suggest a bimodal posterior for the coupling strength $G_{\rm eff}$, favoring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Sarah Libanore , Subhajit Ghosh , Ely D. Kovetz , Kimberly K. Boddy , Alvise Raccanelli

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

Neutrino Self-Interactions ($\nu$SI) beyond the Standard Model are an attractive possibility to soften cosmological constraints on neutrino properties and also to explain the tension in late and early time measurements of the Hubble…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-09 Frank F. Deppisch , Lukas Graf , Werner Rodejohann , Xun-Jie Xu

Non-zero neutrino mass would affect the evolution of the Universe in observable ways, and a strong constraint on the mass can be achieved using combinations of cosmological data sets. We focus on the power spectrum of cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Kazuhide Ichikawa , Tomo Takahashi , Lincoln Greenhill

Self-interaction in the active neutrinos is studied in the literature to alleviate the $H_0$ tension. Similar self-interaction can also explain the observed dips in the flux of the neutrinos coming from the distant astro-physical sources in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-29 Arindam Mazumdar , Subhendra Mohanty , Priyank Parashari

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