Distorted Neutrino Oscillations From Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06740


Cold, ultralight ($\ll$ eV) bosonic dark matter with a misalignment abundance can induce temporal variation in the masses and couplings of Standard Model particles. We find that fast variations in neutrino oscillation parameters can lead to significantly distorted neutrino oscillations (DiNOs) and yield striking signatures at long baseline experiments. We study several representative observables to demonstrate this effect and find that current and future experiments including DUNE and JUNO are sensitive to a wide range of viable scalar parameters over many decades in mass reach.

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G. Krnjaic, P. Machado and L. Necib
Mon, 29 May 17
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Comments: 5+2 pages, 4 figures , 2 appendices