Speaker
Matthew Sullivan
(University of Kansas)
Description
We propose a new mechanism for neutrino mass generation. In our model, neutrino mass is due to neutrinos coupling to a long range scalar potential, and this potential is sourced by dark matter. This leads to a neutrino mass that depends on local dark matter densities and a repulsive scalar force between neutrinos and dark matter. One prediction of this model is that relic neutrinos are mostly absent from our galactic neighborhood. Our model could thus be falsified by the detection of relic neutrinos at future proposed experiments, such as PTOLEMY.
Authors
Matthew Sullivan
(University of Kansas)
Hooman Davoudiasl
(BNL)
Dr
Gopolang Mohlabeng
(Brookhaven National Lab)
