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Feeble neutrino portal dark matter at neutrino detectors

Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay, Eung Jin Chun, Rusa Mandal

2020Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics33 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

We explore the neutrino portal dark matter (DM) at its minimum of field content having two dark sector particles coupled to a right-handed neutrino. Assuming the feeble nature of their interactions with the standard model (SM) particles, we analyze the freeze-in production of the observed DM relic density characterized by three different categories depending on the major production mechanisms. The portal provides interesting signatures at the neutrino detectors like KamLAND, Super-Kamiokande and IceCube, from a very late decay of the scalar DM to the fermion DM and the SM neutrino. Such neutrino flux spectrum from the cosmic and galactic origins can produce anomalous signals at future experiments.

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PhysicsDark matterNeutrinoFermionParticle physicsScalar field dark matterAstrophysicsWeakly interacting massive particlesStandard Model (mathematical formulation)Neutrino detectorHot dark matterWarm dark matterLight dark matterPhysics beyond the Standard ModelScalar (mathematics)Cosmic rayCOSMIC cancer databaseSterile neutrinoCosmic background radiationNeutrino oscillationDark fluidWIMPSolar neutrino problemDetectorDark Matter and Cosmic PhenomenaParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesComputational Physics and Python Applications
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