Self-interacting dark radiation

Kwang Sik Jeong, Fuminobu Takahashi

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Abstract

We consider a simple class of models where dark radiation has self-interactions and therefore does not free stream. Such dark radiation has no anisotropic stress (or viscosity), leaving a distinct signature on the CMB angular power spectrum. Specifically we study a possibility that hidden gauge bosons and/or chiral fermions account for the excess of the effective number of neutrino species. They have gauge interactions and remain light due to the unbroken hidden gauge symmetry, leading to δNeff≃0.29 in some case.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)134-138
Number of pages5
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume725
Issue number1-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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