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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume 81, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09276-5
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- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [864035]
- European Research Council (ERC) [864035] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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This paper investigates how low-scale leptogenesis models can provide a source for dark radiation and demonstrates the potential of primordial majoron cosmology in addressing the Hubble constant tension.
Themajoron, a neutrinophilic pseudo-Goldstone boson conventionally arising in the context of neutrino mass models, can damp neutrino free-streaming and inject additional energy density into neutrinos prior to recombination. The combination of these effects for an eV-scale mass majoron has been shown to ameliorate the outstanding H-0 tension, however only if one introduces additional dark radiation at the level of Delta N-eff similar to 0.5. We show here that models of low-scale leptogenesis can naturally source this dark radiation by generating a primordial population of majorons from the decays of GeV-scale sterile neutrinos in the early Universe. Using a posterior predictive distribution conditioned on Planck2018+BAO data, we show that the value of H-0 observed by the SH0ES collaboration is expected to occur at the level of similar to 10% in the primordial majoron cosmology (to be compared with similar to 0.1% in the case of similar to CDM). This insight provides an intriguing connection between the neutrino mass mechanism, the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, and the discrepant measurements of H-0.
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