Cosmological Constraints on Dark Neutrino Towers

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Auteurs principaux: Anchordoqui, Luis A., Antoniadis, Ignatios, Lust, Dieter, Castillo, Karem Peñaló
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author Anchordoqui, Luis A.
Antoniadis, Ignatios
Lust, Dieter
Castillo, Karem Peñaló
author_facet Anchordoqui, Luis A.
Antoniadis, Ignatios
Lust, Dieter
Castillo, Karem Peñaló
contents We reexamine a dynamical dark matter model with Kaluza-Klein (KK) towers of gravitons and neutrinos fitting together in the dark dimension. We show that even though gravitational decays of neutrino KK towers have little impact in cosmology the weak decay channel could have significant cosmological effects. Taking conservative upper bounds on the dark matter decay rate into two photons before recombination and on the number of effective extra neutrino species $ΔN_{\rm eff}$ we derive constraints on the conversion rate from active to sterile species despite the dependence of the mixing angle on the KK mode mass. We also provide counterarguments to a recent claim suggesting that the bounds on $ΔN_{\rm eff}$ rule out micron-sized extra dimensions.
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spellingShingle Cosmological Constraints on Dark Neutrino Towers
Anchordoqui, Luis A.
Antoniadis, Ignatios
Lust, Dieter
Castillo, Karem Peñaló
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We reexamine a dynamical dark matter model with Kaluza-Klein (KK) towers of gravitons and neutrinos fitting together in the dark dimension. We show that even though gravitational decays of neutrino KK towers have little impact in cosmology the weak decay channel could have significant cosmological effects. Taking conservative upper bounds on the dark matter decay rate into two photons before recombination and on the number of effective extra neutrino species $ΔN_{\rm eff}$ we derive constraints on the conversion rate from active to sterile species despite the dependence of the mixing angle on the KK mode mass. We also provide counterarguments to a recent claim suggesting that the bounds on $ΔN_{\rm eff}$ rule out micron-sized extra dimensions.
title Cosmological Constraints on Dark Neutrino Towers
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07029