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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

Inflation can occur near a point of inflection in the potential of flat directions of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. In this paper we elaborate on the complementarity between the bounds from Cosmic Microwave Background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Bhaskar Dutta , Yudi Santoso

Short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments have shown hints of the existence of additional sterile neutrinos in the eV mass range. Such sterile neutrinos are incompatible with cosmology because they suppress structure formation unless…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-30 Maria Archidiacono , Steen Hannestad , Rasmus Sloth Hansen , Thomas Tram

We investigate how the dark energy properties impact the constraints on the total neutrino mass in interacting dark energy (IDE) models. In this study, we focus on two typical interacting dynamical dark energy models, i.e., the interacting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Lu Feng , Hai-Li Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We present a comprehensive analysis of the interactions of neutrinos with the dark sector within the simplified model framework. We first derive the exact analytic formulas for the differential scattering cross sections of neutrinos with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-02 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Doojin Kim , Deepak Sathyan , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

Nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI) arising from light and heavy mediators probe different sectors of the parameter space of models focusing on phenomena that require the extension of the standard model. High-energy scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-28 Timo J. Kärkkäinen , Zoltán Trócsányi

The smallness of the neutrino masses may be related to inflation. The minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with small Dirac neutrino masses already has all the necessary ingredients for a successful inflation. In this model the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Alexander Kusenko , Anupam Mazumdar

The primordial four-point function encodes a wealth of information about the inflationary Universe. Despite extensive theoretical work, most models of four-point physics have never been compared to data. In this series, we conduct a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Oliver H. E. Philcox

We study the possibility of realising cosmic inflation, dark matter (DM), baryon asymmetry of the universe (BAU) and light neutrino masses in non-supersymmetric minimal gauged $B-L$ extension of the standard model with three right handed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Debasish Borah , Suruj Jyoti Das , Abhijit Kumar Saha

We show how to enlarge the $\nu$MSM (the minimal extension of the standard model by three right-handed neutrinos) to incorporate inflation and provide a common source for electroweak symmetry breaking and for right-handed neutrino masses.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Mikhail Shaposhnikov , Igor Tkachev

General Neutrino Interactions (GNI) are scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, axial vector or tensor interactions of neutrinos with fermions, and generalise the often studied neutrino Non-Standard Interactions (NSI). If GNI arise from heavy new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-05 Ingolf Bischer , Werner Rodejohann

We revisit the cosmology of neutrino self-interaction and use the latest cosmic microwave background data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Planck experiment to constrain the interaction strength. In both flavor-universal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 Anirban Das , Subhajit Ghosh

Unifying the early-universe inflationary paradigm with late-time cosmic acceleration, while resolving the initial Big Bang singularity, remains one of the most profound challenges in modern cosmology. In this paper, we propose a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 Zhiming Shuai , Xiangdong Zhang

Models of cosmic inflation suggest that our universe underwent an early phase of accelerated expansion, driven by the dynamics of one or more scalar fields. Inflationary models make specific, quantitative predictions for several observable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-10 David I. Kaiser

The radiative neutrino mass model with inert doublet dark matter is a promising model for the present experimental issues which cannot be explained within the standard model. We study an extension of this model focusing on cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-05 Romy H. S. Budhi , Shoichi Kashiwase , Daijiro Suematsu

We provide a general framework for self-interacting warm dark matter (WDM) in cosmological perturbations, by deriving from first principles a Boltzmann hierarchy which retains certain independence from a particular interaction Lagrangian.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-28 Rafael Yunis , Carlos R. Argüelles , Diana López Nacir

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 investigate the production of non-thermal dark matter (DM), $\chi$, during post-inflationary reheating era. For inflation, we consider two slow roll single field inflationary scenarios - generalized version of Hilltop (GH) inflation, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Anish Ghoshal , Maxim Yu. Khlopov , Zygmunt Lalak , Shiladitya Porey

In this paper we study double scalar neutrino inflation in the minimal supersymmetric seesaw model in light of WMAP. Inflation in this model is firstly driven by the heavier sneutrino field $\tilde{N}_2$ and then the lighter field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Jun Bi , Bo Feng , Xinmin Zhang

Recent discoveries, e.g., by JWST and DESI, have elevated the level of tension with inflationary $\Lambda$CDM. For example, the empirical evidence now suggests that the standard model violates at least one of the energy conditions from…

General Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Namit Chandak , Fulvio Melia , Junjie Wei