Neutrinos diffusing through dense dark matter spikes around supermassive black holes can be delayed by days, but the accompanying flux suppression means dark matter alone probably cannot explain the observed 100+ day delays from tidal disruption events.
Boxed in from all sides: a global fit to loopy dark matter and neutrino masses
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We investigate a dark matter model that couples to the standard model through a one-loop interaction with neutrinos, where the mediator particles also generate neutrino masses. We perform a global fit that incorporates dark matter relic abundance, primordial nucleosynthesis, neutrino mass, collider and indirect detection constraints. Thanks to the loop suppression, large couplings are allowed, and we find that the model parameters are constrained on all sides. Dark matter masses from 10 MeV to a few TeV are allowed, but sub-GeV masses are preferred for the model to also account for the heaviest neutrino mass. Though our results are valid for a single neutrino mass eigenstate at a time, the model and methods are generalizable to the full 3-flavor case.
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Neutrino Diffusion within Dark Matter Spikes
Neutrinos diffusing through dense dark matter spikes around supermassive black holes can be delayed by days, but the accompanying flux suppression means dark matter alone probably cannot explain the observed 100+ day delays from tidal disruption events.