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Neutrino As The Dark Force

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arxiv 2106.08339 v2 pith:EWW67MDX submitted 2021-06-15 hep-ph astro-ph.COastro-ph.GA

Neutrino As The Dark Force

classification hep-ph astro-ph.COastro-ph.GA
keywords darkmatterneutrinoforcecarriercosmologycouplesdecay
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We point out a novel role for the Standard Model neutrino in dark matter phenomenology where the exchange of neutrinos generates a long-range potential between dark matter particles. The resulting dark matter self interaction could be sufficiently strong to impact small-scale structure formation, without the need of any dark force carrier. This is a generic feature of theories where dark matter couples to the visible sector through the neutrino portal. It is highly testable with improved decay rate measurements at future $Z$, Higgs, and $\tau$ factories, as well as precision cosmology.

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