Coupling active and sterile neutrinos in the cosmon plus seesaw framework

Autor(es)

Bernardini, A. E. ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Dept Fis, BR-13565905 Sao Carlos, SP - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: Physics Letters B; v. 684, n. 2-3, p. 162-166, FEB 8 2010.
• Citações Web of Science: 3

Resumo

The cosmological evolution of neutrino energy densities driven by cosmon-type field equations is introduced assuming that active and sterile neutrinos are intrinsically connected by cosmon fields through the seesaw mechanism. Interpreting sterile neutrinos as dark matter adiabatically coupled with dark energy results in a natural decoupling of (active) mass varying neutrino (MaVaN) equations. Identifying the dimensionless scale of the seesaw mechanism, m/M, with a power of the cosmological scale factor, a, allows for embedding the resulting masses into the generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG) scenario for the dark sector. Without additional assumptions, our findings establish a precise connection among three distinct frameworks: the cosmon field dynamics for MaVaN's, the seesaw mechanism for dynamical mass generation and the GCG scenario. Our results also corroborate with previous assertions that mass varying particles call be the right responsible for the stability issue and for the cosmic acceleration of the universe. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 08/50671-0 - Aplicações em mecânica quântica relativística e teoria de campos: oscilações quânticas, campos fermiônicos, quiralidade e equação de Dirac; sistemas com violação de Lorentz, energia escura e neutrinos cosmológicos; dinâmica relativística no efeito de tunelamento; zitterbewegung-like em sistemas fermiônicos em física da matéria condensada
• Beneficiário: Alex Eduardo de Bernardini
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Jovens Pesquisadores