Cosmic microwave background constraints on secret interactions among sterile neutrinos

Forastieri, Francesco; Lattanzi, Massimiliano; Mangano, Gianpiero; Mirizzi, Alessandro; Natoli, Paolo; Saviano, Ninetta

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2017/07/038

Title: Cosmic microwave background constraints on secret interactions among sterile neutrinos

Journal Article · Fri Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/07/038· OSTI ID:1543934

Forastieri, Francesco ^[1]; Lattanzi, Massimiliano ^[2]; Mangano, Gianpiero ^[3]; Mirizzi, Alessandro ^[4]; Natoli, Paolo ^[1]; Saviano, Ninetta ^[5]

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Ferrara (Italy); Univ. di Ferrara (Italy)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Ferrara (Italy)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Napoli (Italy)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Bari (Italy); Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Bari (Italy)
Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany)

Secret contact interactions among eV sterile neutrinos, mediated by a massive gauge boson X (with M_X ≪ M_W), and characterized by a gauge coupling gX, have been proposed as a mean to reconcile cosmological observations and short-baseline laboratory anomalies. We constrain this scenario using the latest Planck data on Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies, and measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). We consistently include the effect of secret interactions on cosmological perturbations, namely the increased density and pressure fluctuations in the neutrino fluid, and still find a severe tension between the secret interaction framework and cosmology. In fact, taking into account neutrino scattering via secret interactions, we derive our own mass bound on sterile neutrinos and find (at 95 % CL) m_s < 0.82 eV or m_s < 0.29 eV from Planck alone or in combination with BAO, respectively. These limits confirm the discrepancy with the laboratory anomalies. Moreover, we constrain, in the limit of contact interaction, the effective strength G_X to be < 2.8 (2.0) × 10¹⁰ G_F from Planck (Planck+BAO). This result, together with the mass bound, strongly disfavours the region with M_X ~ 0.1 MeV and relatively large coupling g_X~ 10^-1, previously indicated as a possible solution to the small scale dark matter problem.

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