Neutrino Portals to Dark Matter

Abstract

We explore the possibility that dark matter interactions with Standard Model particles are dominated by interactions with neutrinos. We examine whether it is possible to construct such a scenario in a gauge invariant manner. We first study the coupling of dark matter to the full lepton doublet and confirm that this generally leads to the dark matter phenomenology being dominated by interactions with charged leptons. We then explore two different implementations of the neutrino portal in which neutrinos mix with a Standard Model singlet fermion that interacts directly with dark matter through either a scalar or vector mediator. In the latter cases we find that the neutrino interactions can dominate the dark matter phenomenology. Present neutrino detectors can probe dark matter annihilations into neutrinos and already set the strongest constraints on these realisations. Future experiments such as Hyper-Kamiokande, MEMPHYS, DUNE, or DARWIN could allow to probe dark matter-neutrino cross sections down to the value required to obtain the correct thermal relic abundance.

arXiv comment30 pages, 11 figures; several comments and references added; typos corrected; matches version published in EPJ C

References in corpus (81)

• Supersymmetric Dark Matter
• FeynRules 2.0 - A complete toolbox for tree-level phenomenology
• Automatized One-Loop Calculations in 4 and D dimensions
• Generating Feynman Diagrams and Amplitudes with FeynArts 3
• Dark Matter Search Results from a One Tonne$\times$Year Exposure of XENON1T
• Secluded WIMP Dark Matter
• FeynRules - Feynman rules made easy
• The Search for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos
• micrOMEGAs: A program for calculating the relic density in the MSSM
• Indirect Dark Matter Signatures in the Cosmic Dark Ages I. Generalizing the Bound on s-wave Dark Matter Annihilation from Planck
• Primordial Nucleosynthesis: from precision cosmology to fundamental physics
• Right-Handed Neutrinos at LHC and the Mechanism of Neutrino Mass Generation
• Hyper-Kamiokande Design Report
• Novel Supersymmetric SO(10) Seesaw Mechanism
• New Constraints and Prospects for sub-GeV Dark Matter Scattering off Electrons in Xenon
• Radiatively Induced Neutrino Masses and Large Higgs-Neutrino Couplings in the Standard Model with Majorana Fields
• Implications of Generalized Z-Z' Mixing
• Search for Invisible Decays of a Dark Photon Produced in e+e- Collisions at BaBar
• TikZ-Feynman: Feynman diagrams with TikZ
• Hunting All the Hidden Photons
• Higgs-field Portal into Hidden Sectors
• Science and Technology of BOREXINO: A Real Time Detector for Low Energy Solar Neutrinos SOLAR NEUTRINOS
• Global constraints on heavy neutrino mixing
• A Lower Bound on the Mass of Cold Thermal Dark Matter from Planck
• Is dark matter with long-range interactions a solution to all small-scale problems of ΛCDM cosmology?
• ETHOS - An Effective Theory of Structure Formation: Dark matter physics as a possible explanation of the small-scale CDM problems
• Asymmetric Dark Matter from Leptogenesis
• Exploring nu signals in dark matter detectors
• ETHOS - An Effective Theory of Structure Formation: From dark particle physics to the matter distribution of the Universe
• Effects of cold dark matter decoupling and pair annihilation on cosmological perturbations
• Constraining Dark Matter candidates from structure formation
• Search for annihilating dark matter in the Sun with 3 years of IceCube data
• Neutrino Constraints on the Dark Matter Total Annihilation Cross Section
• Constraints on Dark Matter interactions from structure formation: Damping lengths
• Neutrino decoupling beyond the Standard Model: CMB constraints on the Dark Matter mass with a fast and precise $N_{\mathrm{eff}}$ evaluation
• BBN And The CMB Constrain Neutrino Coupled Light WIMPs
• Directly detecting sub-GeV dark matter with electrons from nuclear scattering
• Constraining Dark Matter-Neutrino Interactions using the CMB and Large-Scale Structure
• Upper Bound on the Dark Matter Total Annihilation Cross Section
• Using the Milky Way satellites to study interactions between cold dark matter and radiation
• A Very Intense Neutrino Super Beam Experiment for Leptonic CP Violation Discovery based on the European Spallation Source Linac: A Snowmass 2013 White Paper
• Cosmological bounds on dark matter-neutrino interactions
• MeV-mass dark matter and primordial nucleosynthesis
• Dark matter-neutrino interactions through the lens of their cosmological implications
• Solar Neutrinos as a Signal and Background in Direct-Detection Experiments Searching for Sub-GeV Dark Matter With Electron Recoils
• Thermal Dark Matter Through the Dirac Neutrino Portal
• Implications for New Physics from Fine-Tuning Arguments: I. Application to SUSY and Seesaw Cases
• Dark matter-radiation interactions: the impact on dark matter haloes
• Imaging Galactic Dark Matter with High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
• Study of solar and other unknown anti-neutrino fluxes with Borexino at LNGS
• Testing MeV dark matter with neutrino detectors
• Sterile Neutrino portal to Dark Matter II: Exact Dark symmetry
• Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter I: The $U(1{)}_{B-L}$ case
• Tight bonds between sterile neutrinos and dark matter
• A realistic model for Dark Matter interactions in the neutrino portal paradigm
• Enhancing Dark Matter Annihilation into Neutrinos
• Dips in the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background
• MEMPHYS:A large scale water Cerenkov detector at Fréjus
• Dark Matter Through the Neutrino Portal
• A fresh look into the interacting dark matter scenario
• Testable two-loop radiative neutrino mass model based on an $LLQ{d}^{c}Q{d}^c$ effective operator
• Monochromatic dark neutrinos and boosted dark matter in noble liquid direct detection
• Phenomenology of the Generalised Scotogenic Model with Fermionic Dark Matter
• Neutrino Portal Dark Matter: From Dwarf Galaxies to IceCube
• Scrutinizing Right-Handed Neutrino Portal Dark Matter With Yukawa Effect
• MeV Dark Matter: Model Independent Bounds
• Interactions of Astrophysical Neutrinos with Dark Matter: A model building perspective
• Dark matter direct detection of a fermionic singlet at one loop
• Search for neutrinos from annihilation of captured low-mass dark matter particles in the Sun by Super-Kamiokande
• Prospects for discovering a neutrino line induced by dark matter annihilation
• The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope
• Constraints on MeV dark matter using neutrino detectors and their implication for the 21-cm results
• Probing the sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter with $\gamma$ rays
• Model Independent Bounds on Kinetic Mixing
• Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation into Neutrinos with Super-Kamiokande
• Implications of a Dark Matter-Neutrino Coupling at Hyper-Kamiokande
• Reducing cosmological small scale structure via a large dark matter-neutrino interaction: constraints and consequences
• Cosmological singlet diagnostics of neutrinophilic dark matter
• Are We Looking at Neutrino Absorption Spectra at IceCube?
• JUNO Sensitivity to Resonant Absorption of Galactic Supernova Neutrinos by Dark Matter
• Effective theories for Dark Matter interactions and the neutrino portal paradigm

Cited by in corpus (82)

• Feebly-Interacting Particles:FIPs 2020 Workshop Report
• The Present and Future Status of Heavy Neutral Leptons
• Refined Bounds on MeV-scale Thermal Dark Sectors from BBN and the CMB
• Dark Matter Annihilation to Neutrinos
• TeV-Scale Thermal WIMPs: Unitarity and its Consequences
• Dark Neutrinos and a Three Portal Connection to the Standard Model
• Snowmass White Paper: Beyond the Standard Model effects on Neutrino Flavor
• Boosted dark matter from diffuse supernova neutrinos
• Neutrino-Dark Matter Connections in Gauge Theories
• Tau Neutrinos in the Next Decade: from GeV to EeV
• Neutrino Portal to FIMP Dark Matter with an Early Matter Era
• Understanding the MiniBooNE and the muon and electron $g-2$ anomalies with a light $Z^{\prime }$ and a second Higgs doublet
• Light Dirac neutrino portal dark matter with observable $\Delta N_{\mathrm{eff}}$
• The Thermal History of Composite Dark Matter
• Searching for Sub-GeV Dark Matter in the Galactic Centre using Hyper-Kamiokande
• Feeble neutrino portal dark matter at neutrino detectors
• Exclusion limits on Dark Matter-Neutrino Scattering Cross-section
• A new life for sterile neutrino dark matter after the pandemic
• Search for U(1)${}_{L_{\mu }-L_{\tau }}$ charged Dark Matter with neutrino telescope
• Self-interacting Dark Matter via Right Handed Neutrino Portal
• Light mass window of lepton portal dark matter
• LeptonInjector and LeptonWeighter: A neutrino event generator and weighter for neutrino observatories
• Icecube/DeepCore tests for novel explanations of the MiniBooNE anomaly
• Dark matter produced from right-handed neutrinos
• A testable hidden-sector model for Dark Matter and neutrino masses
• Fermion Dark Matter and Radiative Neutrino Masses from Spontaneous Lepton Number Breaking
• Freeze-in Dark Matter from Secret Neutrino Interactions
• Neutrino Interactions in the Late Universe
• Probing chiral and flavored $Z^{\prime }$ from cosmic bursts through neutrino interactions
• Loop Dominated Signals from Neutrino Portal Dark Matter
• Effective Theories with Dark Matter Applications
• Light lepton portal dark matter meets the LHC
• New Laboratory Constraints on Neutrinophilic Mediators
• Extended Analysis of Neutrino-Dark Matter Interactions with Small-Scale CMB Experiments
• Neutrino interactions with ultralight axion-like dark matter
• Sterile neutrino dark matter in a U(1) extension of the standard model
• Strongly Interacting Neutrino Portal Dark Matter
• Energy-dependent Boosted Dark Matter from Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background
• Hints of Neutrino Dark Matter scattering in the CMB? Constraints from the Marginalized and Profile Distributions
• Phenomenology of fermion dark matter as neutrino mass mediator with gauged B-L
• Dark Matter in the Type Ib Seesaw Model
• Robust Limits from Upcoming Neutrino Telescopes and Implications on Minimal Dark Matter Models
• Searching for new physics at $\mu \to e$ facilities with ${\mu }^{+}$ and ${\pi }^{+}$ decays at rest
• Astronomy with energy dependent flavour ratios of extragalactic neutrinos
• MeV to multi-TeV thermal WIMPs: most conservative limits
• Light dark matter from dark sector decay
• Towards detecting super-GeV dark matter via annihilation to neutrinos
• New insights on $\nu$-DM Interactions
• Impact of leptonic unitarity and dark matter direct detection experiments on the NMSSM with inverse seesaw mechanism
• Time-delayed neutrino emission from supernovae as a probe of dark matter-neutrino interactions
• $\nu$ Electroweak Baryogenesis: The Scalar Singlet Strikes Back
• Effective field theory analysis of dark matter-standard model interactions with spin one mediators
• Sterile Neutrino Portal Dark Matter in $\nu$THDM
• Semi-Annihilation of Fermionic Dark Matter
• Dark Sector extensions of the Littlest Seesaw in the presence of Primordial Black Holes
• Light curves of BSM-induced neutrino echoes in the optically-thin limit
• Neutrino portals to MeV WIMPs with s-channel mediators
• Supernova-Neutrino-Boosted Dark Matter from All Galaxies
• Spontaneously stabilised dark matter from a fermiophobic $U(1{)}^{\prime }$ gauge symmetry
• Composite Dark Matter and Neutrino Masses from a Light Hidden Sector
• Probing Long-Range Forces Between Neutrinos with Cosmic Structures
• Characterising Dark Matter-induced neutrino potentials
• Collider search of light dark matter model with dark sector decay
• Cosmological implications of the KOTO excess
• Exploring dark $Z_d$-boson in future Large Hadron-electron collider
• Bounds on neutrino-DM interactions from TXS 0506+056 neutrino outburst
• Dark Matter and Neutrino Masses in a Portalino-like Model
• From oversimplified to overlooked: the case for exploring Rich Dark Sectors
• Directional Neutrino Searches for Galactic Center Dark Matter at Large Underground LArTPCs
• Indirect dark matter searches at ultrahigh energy neutrino detectors
• Investigating sub-MeV dark matter annihilation to neutrinos using direct detection experiments
• The Dark Matter Diffused Supernova Neutrino Background
• Impact of ATLAS constraints on effective dark matter-standard model interactions with spin-one mediators
• Color confinement, dark matter and the missing of anti-matter
• Neutrino specific spin-3/2 dark matter
• Imprints of light dark matter on the evolution of cosmic neutrinos
• Mapping the evolution of supernova-neutrino-boosted dark matter within the Milky Way
• Reviving $Z^{\prime }$ Portal Dark Matter with Conversion Mechanism
• Large Neutrino-Dark Matter Interactions: From Effective Field Theory to Ultraviolet Completions
• Dark Matter-Driven Low-Scale Leptogenesis via Neutrino Portal
• Neutrino-Dark Matter Portals
• Sterile neutrino portals to Majorana dark matter: effective operators and UV completions