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Observing Dirac neutrinos in the cosmic microwave background
- Source :
- Phys. Rev. D 100, 075027 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Planned CMB Stage IV experiments have the potential to measure the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom in the early Universe, $N_\text{eff}$, with percent-level accuracy. This probes new thermalized light particles and also constrains possible new-physics interactions of Dirac neutrinos. Many Dirac-neutrino models that aim to address the Dirac stability, the smallness of neutrino masses or the matter--anti-matter asymmetry of our Universe endow the right-handed chirality partners $\nu_R$ with additional interactions that can thermalize them. Unless the reheating temperature of our Universe was low, this leads to testable deviations in $N_\text{eff}$. We discuss well-motivated models for $\nu_R$ interactions such as gauged $U(1)_{B-L}$ and the neutrinophilic two-Higgs-doublet model, and compare the sensitivity of SPT-3G, Simons Observatory, and CMB-S4 to other experiments, in particular the LHC.<br />Comment: 8 pages, matches PRD version
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Phys. Rev. D 100, 075027 (2019)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1908.03286
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.075027