http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12315
Flavor universal neutrino self-interaction have been shown to ease the tension in the measurements of Hubble constant between the early and late Universe data. We introduce a self-interaction structure that is flavor-specific in the three active neutrino framework. This is motivated by stringent constraints on new secret interactions among electron and muon neutrinos from several laboratory experiments. Our study indicates the presence of a strongly interaction mode which implies a late-decoupling of the neutrinos just prior to matter radiation equality. Using the degeneracy of the coupling strength with other cosmological parameters, we explain the origin of this new mode as a result of better fit to certain features in the CMB data. We find that if only one or two of the three active neutrino flavors are interacting, then the statistical significance of the strongly-interacting neutrino mode increases substantially relative to the flavor universal case. However, the central value of the coupling strength for this interaction mode does not change by a appreciable amount in flavor-specific cases.
A. Das and S. Ghosh
Thu, 26 Nov 20
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Comments: 35 pages, 13 figures, Comments welcome
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