Dark Neutrino Portal to Explain MiniBooNE excess

Abstract

We present a novel framework that provides an explanation to the long-standing excess of electron-like events in the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab. We suggest a new dark sector containing a dark neutrino and a dark gauge boson, both with masses between a few tens and a few hundreds of MeV. Dark neutrinos are produced via neutrino-nucleus scattering, followed by their decay to the dark gauge boson, which in turn gives rise to electron-like events. This mechanism provides an excellent fit to MiniBooNE energy spectra and angular distributions.

arXiv comment5 pages, 3 figures, discussion on constraints expanded, corrected figure and benchmark point updated, matches PRL version

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