Resolving Hubble tension by self-interacting neutrinos with Dirac seesaw

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/11/003MaRDI QIDQ5035265zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 21 February 2022

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

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)

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.

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