The forward physics facility: sites, experiments, and physics potential

LA Anchordoqui, A Ariga, T Ariga, W Bai, K Balazs… - Physics reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Forward Physics Facility (FPF) is a proposal to create a cavern with the space
and infrastructure to support a suite of far-forward experiments at the Large Hadron Collider …

[HTML][HTML] Type II Dirac seesaw with observable ΔNeff in the light of W-mass anomaly

D Borah, S Mahapatra, D Nanda, N Sahu - Physics Letters B, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a type II seesaw model for light Dirac neutrinos to provide an explanation for the
recently reported anomaly in W boson mass by the CDF collaboration with 7σ statistical …

Neff constraints on light mediators coupled to neutrinos: the dilution-resistant effect

SP Li, XJ Xu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We investigate the impact of new light particles, carrying significant energy in the
early universe after neutrino decoupling, on the cosmological effective relativistic neutrino …

Neutrino magnetic moments meet precision Neff measurements

SP Li, XJ Xu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract In the early universe, Dirac neutrino magnetic moments due to their chirality-
flipping nature could lead to thermal production of right-handed neutrinos, which would …

Dirac neutrinos and Neff. Part II. The freeze-in case

X Luo, W Rodejohann, XJ Xu - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss Dirac neutrinos whose right-handed component ν R has new interactions that
may lead to a measurable contribution to the effective number of relativistic neutrino species …

Dark matter produced from right-handed neutrinos

SP Li, XJ Xu - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) provide a natural portal to a dark sector accommodating
dark matter (DM). In this work, we consider that the dark sector is connected to the standard …

Light Dirac neutrino portal dark matter with observable ΔN eff

A Biswas, D Borah, D Nanda - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a Dirac neutrino portal dark matter scenario by minimally extending the particle
content of the Standard Model (SM) with three right-handed neutrinos (ν R), a Dirac fermion …

Bounds on neutrino-scalar nonstandard interactions from big bang nucleosynthesis

J Venzor, A Pérez-Lorenzana, J De-Santiago - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Coherent forward scattering processes by neutrino-scalar nonstandard interactions (SNSI)
induce an effective neutrino mass. In the early Universe, a large neutrino effective mass …

Neutrino non-standard interactions meet precision measurements of Neff

Y Du, JH Yu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract 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 …

at CMB challenges light gauge boson scenarios

DK Ghosh, P Ghosh, S Jeesun, R Srivastava - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The relativistic degrees of freedom (N eff) is one of the crucial cosmological parameters. The
precise measurement of N eff at the time of cosmic microwave background formation, by …