Resolving Hubble tension by self-interacting neutrinos with Dirac seesaw

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/11/003zbMATH Open1486.85025arXiv2003.12057OpenAlexW3095865741MaRDI QIDQ5035265FDOQ5035265

Jia-Ming Zheng, Yin-Zhe Ma, Hong-Jian He

Publication date: 21 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Self-interacting neutrinos that begin to free-stream at close to matter-radiation equality can reduce the physical size of photon sound horizon at last scattering surface. This mechanism can be the reason why standard $Lambda$CDM cosmology sees a lower value of the Hubble constant than local measurements from distance ladder. We propose a new realization of self-interacting Dirac neutrinos (SID$u$) with light-dark-photon mediator for a viable interaction mechanism. Our model is UV completed by a Dirac seesaw with anomaly-free dark $U(1{)}_X^{}$ gauge group which charges the right-handed neutrinos. This model naturally generates small masses for Dirac neutrinos and induces self-scattering of right-handed neutrinos. The scattering with left-handed neutrinos is suppressed by a chirality-flip mass insertion when the neutrino energy is much larger than its mass. The resultant neutrino self-scattering is not operative for $E_{u}gtrsimO(extkeV)$, which avoids the cosmological and laboratory constraints. By evolving Boltzmann equations for left- and right-handed neutrino number densities, we show that about $2/3$ of the left-handed neutrinos are converted into right-handed neutrinos in a short epoch between the Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis and the recombination, and interact with each other efficiently afterwards. The resultant neutrino non-free-streaming is the crucial ingredient to shrink down the comoving sound horizon at drag epoch, which can reconcile the Hubble tension between early and late time measurements.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12057

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMphysics of the early universecosmological neutrinoscosmological parameters from CMBR

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

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