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Intimate Relationship Between Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter and $\Delta N_{\rm eff}$

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arxiv 2011.02487 v3 pith:C62GWH3H submitted 2020-11-04 hep-ph astro-ph.COastro-ph.HEhep-ex

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The self-interacting neutrino hypothesis is well motivated for addressing the tension between the origin of sterile neutrino dark matter and indirect detection constraints. It can also result in a number of testable signals from the laboratories to the cosmos. We explore a model of neutrino self-interaction mediated by a Majoron-like scalar with sub-MeV mass, and show that explaining the relic density of sterile neutrino dark matter implies a lower bound on the amount of extra radiation in early universe, in particular $\Delta N_{\rm eff}>0.12$ at the CMB epoch. This lower bound will be further strengthened with an improved $X$-ray search at the Athena observatory. Such an intimate relationship will be unambiguously tested by the upcoming CMB-S4 project.

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