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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2021)058
Keywords
Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Effective Field Theories; Neutrino Physics
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- National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [12047503, 12022514, 11875003]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2020YFC2201501]
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The study precisely calculates the number of relativistic species, N-eff, in the standard model and predicts it will be measured to the percent level by CMB-S4 in the future. Neutral-current non-standard interactions are found to impact neutrino decoupling in the early Universe, subsequently modifying N-eff. The results provide a comprehensive analysis of the dimension-7 parameterized operators in effective field theory framework and offer a stringent constraint on the dimension-6 vector-type neutrino-electron operator's scale.
The number of relativistic species, N-eff, has been precisely calculated in the standard model, and would be measured to the percent level by CMB-S4 in future. Neutral-current non-standard interactions would affect neutrino decoupling in the early Universe, thus modifying N-eff. We parameterize those operators up to dimension-7 in the effective field theory framework, and then provide a complete, generic and analytical dictionary for the collision term integrals. From precision measurements of N-eff, the most stringent constraint is obtained for the dimension-6 vector-type neutrino-electron operator, whose scale is constrained to be above about 195 (331) GeV from Planck (CMB-S4). We find our results complementary to other experiments like neutrino coherent scattering, neutrino oscillation, collider, and neutrino deep inelastic scattering experiments.
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