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Sterile neutrino shape shifting caused by dark matter

Hooman Davoudiasl* and Peter B. Denton†

  • High Energy Theory Group, Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA

  • *hooman@bnl.gov
  • †pdenton@bnl.gov
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Phys. Rev. D 108, 035013 – Published 9 August, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.035013

Abstract

Light sterile neutrinos with a mass of ∼1  eV continue to be interesting due to multiple hints from terrestrial experiments. This simple hypothesis suffers from strong astrophysical constraints, in particular from the early Universe as well as solar neutrinos. We develop a cosmologically viable proposal consistent with the terrestrial hints, as well as solar constraints, by sourcing the sterile neutrino’s mass from ordinary matter via an ultralight scalar ϕ which can also be the dark matter. In this scenario, the experimentally implied ∼1  eV sterile neutrino mass is a local value and changes throughout spacetime.

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Phys. Rev. D 108, 035013– Published 9 August, 2023
  • Received 30 January 2023
  • Accepted 24 July 2023
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