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Observing Dirac neutrinos in the cosmic microwave background

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arxiv 1908.03286 v2 pith:T6P6D6SS submitted 2019-08-08 hep-ph astro-ph.CO

Observing Dirac neutrinos in the cosmic microwave background

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Planned CMB Stage IV experiments have the potential to measure the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom in the early Universe, $N_\text{eff}$, with percent-level accuracy. This probes new thermalized light particles and also constrains possible new-physics interactions of Dirac neutrinos. Many Dirac-neutrino models that aim to address the Dirac stability, the smallness of neutrino masses or the matter--anti-matter asymmetry of our Universe endow the right-handed chirality partners $\nu_R$ with additional interactions that can thermalize them. Unless the reheating temperature of our Universe was low, this leads to testable deviations in $N_\text{eff}$. We discuss well-motivated models for $\nu_R$ interactions such as gauged $U(1)_{B-L}$ and the neutrinophilic two-Higgs-doublet model, and compare the sensitivity of SPT-3G, Simons Observatory, and CMB-S4 to other experiments, in particular the LHC.

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