Long lived inert Higgs in fast expanding universe and its imprint on cosmic microwave background

Abstract

Presence of any extra radiation energy density at the time of cosmic microwave background formation can significantly impact the measurement of the effective relativistic neutrino degrees of freedom or $\mathrm{\Delta }{\mathrm{N}}_{\mathrm{eff}}$ which is very precisely measured by the Planck collaboration. Here, we propose a scenario where a long lived inert scalar, which is very weakly coupled to dark sector, decays to a fermion dark matter via freeze-in mechanism plus standard model neutrinos at very low temperature $(T<T_{\mathrm{BBN}})$. We explore this model in the fast expanding universe, where it is assumed that the early epoch $(T>T_{\mathrm{BBN}})$ of the universe is dominated by a non-standard species $\Phi$ instead of the standard radiation. In this non-standard cosmological picture, such late time decay of the inert scalar can inject some entropy to the neutrino sector after it decouples from the thermal bath and this will make substantial contribution to $\mathrm{\Delta }{\mathrm{N}}_{\mathrm{eff}}$. Besides, in this scenario, the new contribution to $\Delta N_{\mathrm{eff}}$ is highly correlated with the dark matter sector. Thus, one can explore such feebly interacting dark matter particles (FIMP) by the precise measurement of $\Delta N_{\mathrm{eff}}$ using the current (Planck2018) and forthcoming (CMB-S4 \& SPT3G) experiments.

arXiv comment31 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, Version accepted for publication in PRD

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