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We entertain the possibility that neutrino masses and dark matter (DM) originate from a common composite dark sector. A minimal effective theory can be constructed based on a dark $SU(3)_D$ interaction with three flavors of massless dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-13 Hooman Davoudiasl , Pier Paolo Giardino , Ethan T. Neil , Enrico Rinaldi

The cosmic neutrino background is both a dramatic prediction of the hot Big Bang and a compelling target for current and future observations. The impact of relativistic neutrinos in the early universe has been observed at high significance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Daniel Green , David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran

We consider the cosmological constraints on theories in which there exists a nontrivial coupling between the dark matter sector and the sector responsible for the acceleration of the universe, in light of the most recent supernovae, large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-30 Rachel Bean , Eanna E. Flanagan , Istvan Laszlo , Mark Trodden

We present a new study on the elastic scattering cross section of dark matter (DM) and neutrinos using the latest cosmological data from Planck and large-scale structure experiments. We find that the strongest constraints are set by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-13 Ryan J. Wilkinson , Celine Boehm , Julien Lesgourgues

We consider a class of fermionic dark matter candidates that are charged under both the SU(2)$_L$ and U(1)$_Y$ gauge interactions. In this case a certain amount of dark matter-Higgs couplings, which can split the dark matter into a pair of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-08 Natsumi Nagata , Satoshi Shirai

Dark matter (DM) and neutrinos are the two most compelling pieces of evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics but these are often treated as belonging to two different sectors. Yet DM-neutrino interactions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-12 Celine Boehm , Andres Olivares-Del Campo , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Silvia Pascoli

In this work, we use neutrino masses as a probe of the neutrino-light-quark effective scalar interactions. It is found that neutrinos can acquire masses not only from the usual light quark loop corrections but also from the light quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Feng-Zhi Chen , Junlin Huang , Fanrong Xu

In this article, we investigate the phenomenological aspects of a feebly interacting sterile neutrino dark matter candidate within a low-scale seesaw framework. The Type-I seesaw model is augmented by a second complex scalar doublet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Kunal Pandey , Suhail Khan

The origin of the neutrino mass, dark matter (DM), and dark energy (DE) are among the most challenging problems of fundamental physics. We address these questions from analyses of the models where the neutrino mass is generated via Yukawa…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-01-23 Gennady Y. Chitov

All pieces of concrete evidence for phenomena outside the standard model (SM) - neutrino masses and dark matter - are consistent with the existence of new degrees of freedom that interact very weakly, if at all, with those in the SM. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-18 Jeffrey M. Berryman , André de Gouvêa , Kevin J. Kelly , Yue Zhang

We study neutrino and dark matter based on a gauged $U(1)_R$ symmetry in a framework of radiative seesaw scenario. Identifying dark matter as a bosoninc particle, it interacts with quark and lepton sectors through vector-like heavier quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-27 Keiko I. Nagao , Hiroshi Okada

The high densities in the early Universe provide a unique laboratory to constrain couplings between feebly interacting particles, such as dark matter and neutrinos. In this article, we study how Big Bang Nucleosynthesis can constrain models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Toni Bertólez-Martínez , Justo López-Sarrión , Jordi Salvado

We discuss the viability of a light particle ($\sim 30$ eV neutrino) with strong self-interactions as a dark matter candidate. The interaction prevents the neutrinos from free-streaming during the radiation dominated regime so galaxy sized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Fernando Atrio-Barandela , Sacha Davidson

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

We examine simple extension of the standard model with a pair of fermions, one singlet and a doublet, in a common thread linking the dark matter problem with the smallness of neutrino masses associated with several exciting features. In the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Partha Konar , Ananya Mukherjee , Abhijit Kumar Saha , Sudipta Show

We consider a minimal type Ib seesaw model where the effective neutrino mass operator involves two different Higgs doublets, and the two right-handed neutrinos form a heavy Dirac mass. We propose a minimal dark matter extension of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-25 Marco Chianese , Bowen Fu , Stephen F. King

In a dense cloud of massive fermions interacting by exchange of a light scalar field, the effective mass of the fermion can become negligibly small. As the cloud expands, the effective mass and the total energy density eventually increase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-15 T. Goldman , G. J. Stephenson , P. M. Alsing , B. H. J. McKellar

We consider the radiative generation of neutrino mass through the interactions of neutrinos with MeV dark matter. We construct a realistic renormalizable model with one scalar doublet and one complex singlet together with three light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-15 Abdesslam Arhrib , Céline Bœhm , Ernest Ma , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

We employ data from the recently observed high-energy neutrino events at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory to constrain interactions between the dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way and the neutrino sector. We construct an extended un-binned…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-28 Carlos Argüelles , Ali Kheirandish , Aaron C. Vincent

We explore a Portalino-like model of dark matter and neutrino masses in which right-handed neutrino fields connect gauge neutral operators from the Standard Model and Hidden Sector. Neutrino masses are generated via a seesaw-like mechanism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-19 Dugald Hepburn , Stephen M. West