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| author | de Farias, Mickael V. S. Holanda, Rodrigo Paixao, Matheus M. A. Queiroz, Farinaldo S. Santos, Priscila V. dos |
| author_facet | de Farias, Mickael V. S. Holanda, Rodrigo Paixao, Matheus M. A. Queiroz, Farinaldo S. Santos, Priscila V. dos |
| contents | Long-lived particles (LLPs) provide an interesting window into physics beyond the Standard Model, offering characteristic signatures at colliders and in cosmology. In this work, we investigate LLPs decays into dark matter. If the lifetime of LLPs are longer than $10^4$s, the decay products can disrupt the synthesis of light nuclei in the early universe and alter Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) predictions. If the LLP is much heavier than the dark matter particle, the decay contributes to the number of effective neutrino species, $N_{eff}$. We describe these decays via dimension-six effective operators and outline the parameter space in which such decays obey cosmological bounds stemming from BBN, structure formation, Cosmic Microwave Background, and Baryon Acoustic Oscillation data. |
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| spellingShingle | Cosmological Constraints on Long-Lived Particles Using Dimension-Six Effective Operators de Farias, Mickael V. S. Holanda, Rodrigo Paixao, Matheus M. A. Queiroz, Farinaldo S. Santos, Priscila V. dos High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory Long-lived particles (LLPs) provide an interesting window into physics beyond the Standard Model, offering characteristic signatures at colliders and in cosmology. In this work, we investigate LLPs decays into dark matter. If the lifetime of LLPs are longer than $10^4$s, the decay products can disrupt the synthesis of light nuclei in the early universe and alter Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) predictions. If the LLP is much heavier than the dark matter particle, the decay contributes to the number of effective neutrino species, $N_{eff}$. We describe these decays via dimension-six effective operators and outline the parameter space in which such decays obey cosmological bounds stemming from BBN, structure formation, Cosmic Microwave Background, and Baryon Acoustic Oscillation data. |
| title | Cosmological Constraints on Long-Lived Particles Using Dimension-Six Effective Operators |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18580 |