Boomerang mechanism explaining the excess radio background

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Autori principali: Dev, Bhupal, Di Bari, Pasquale, Martinez-Soler, Ivan, Roshan, Rishav
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Dev, Bhupal
Di Bari, Pasquale
Martinez-Soler, Ivan
Roshan, Rishav
author_facet Dev, Bhupal
Di Bari, Pasquale
Martinez-Soler, Ivan
Roshan, Rishav
contents We propose a {\em boomerang mechanism} for the explanation of the excess radio background detected by ARCADE. In an early stage, at a temperature $T \sim 100\,{\rm keV}$, a fraction of relic neutrinos is resonantly converted into dark neutrinos by mixing induced by a pre-existing lepton asymmetry. Dark neutrinos decay much later into a dark photon, mixed with photon, and a dark fermion, with a lifetime longer than the age of the Universe, as required by a solution to the excess radio background. This scenario circumvents the upper bound on the neutrino magnetic moment but still implies a testable lower bound.
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spellingShingle Boomerang mechanism explaining the excess radio background
Dev, Bhupal
Di Bari, Pasquale
Martinez-Soler, Ivan
Roshan, Rishav
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We propose a {\em boomerang mechanism} for the explanation of the excess radio background detected by ARCADE. In an early stage, at a temperature $T \sim 100\,{\rm keV}$, a fraction of relic neutrinos is resonantly converted into dark neutrinos by mixing induced by a pre-existing lepton asymmetry. Dark neutrinos decay much later into a dark photon, mixed with photon, and a dark fermion, with a lifetime longer than the age of the Universe, as required by a solution to the excess radio background. This scenario circumvents the upper bound on the neutrino magnetic moment but still implies a testable lower bound.
title Boomerang mechanism explaining the excess radio background
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03441