Ultralight scalar dark matter amplifies the lepton-flavor-violating muon-to-positron conversion rate via an effective Majorana mass m_μe, yielding new constraints on flavor-off-diagonal neutrino couplings from SINDRUM II, COMET, and Mu2e bounds.
Supernova Bounds on Majoron-emitting decays of light neutrinos
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Neutrino masses arising from the spontaneous violation of ungauged lepton-number are accompanied by a physical Goldstone boson, generically called Majoron. In the high-density supernova medium the effects of Majoron-emitting neutrino decays are important even if they are suppressed in vacuo by small neutrino masses and/or small off-diagonal couplings. We reconsider the influence of these decays on the neutrino signal of supernovae in the light of recent Super-Kamiokande data on solar and atmospheric neutrinos. We find that majoron-neutrino coupling constants in the range $3\times 10^{-7}\lsim g\lsim 2\times 10^{-5}$ or $g \gsim 3 \times 10^{-4}$ are excluded by the observation of SN1987A. Then we discuss the potential of Superkamiokande and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory to detect majoron neutrino interactions in the case of a future galactic supernova. We find that these experiments could probe majoron neutrino interactions with improved sensitivity.
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Models scalar-mediated νSI on the DSNB in a full three-flavor PMNS framework for four coupling structures and projects 3σ sensitivities at JUNO, Hyper-Kamiokande-Gd, and DUNE reaching g∼10^{-8} for m_ϕ∼100-300 eV.
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Amplifying muon-to-positron conversion in nuclei with ultralight dark matter
Ultralight scalar dark matter amplifies the lepton-flavor-violating muon-to-positron conversion rate via an effective Majorana mass m_μe, yielding new constraints on flavor-off-diagonal neutrino couplings from SINDRUM II, COMET, and Mu2e bounds.
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Diffuse Supernova Neutrinos with Secret Neutrino Interactions
Models scalar-mediated νSI on the DSNB in a full three-flavor PMNS framework for four coupling structures and projects 3σ sensitivities at JUNO, Hyper-Kamiokande-Gd, and DUNE reaching g∼10^{-8} for m_ϕ∼100-300 eV.