Boomerang mechanism explaining the excess radio background
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We propose a boomerang mechanism for the explanation of the excess radio background detected by ARCADE 2. In an early stage of the Universe, at a temperature $T$ in the range $\sim 0.1\,{\rm keV}$--$1\,{\rm MeV}$, a fraction of relic neutrinos is resonantly converted into dark neutrinos by mixing induced by a pre-existing lepton asymmetry. Dark neutrinos decay much later into a dark-standard photon state and a dark fermion, with a lifetime longer than the age of the Universe, as required by a solution to the excess radio background. This scenario circumvents the upper bound on the neutrino magnetic moment but still implies a testable lower bound.
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