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IceCube Events from Heavy DM decays through the Right-handed Neutrino Portal
The recently observed IceCube PeV events could be due to heavy dark matter
(DM) decay. In this paper, we propose a simple DM model with extra
gauge symmetry and bridge it with standard model particles through heavy
right-handed neutrino. The Dirac fermion DM with mass ~5 PeV can
dominantly decay into a dark Higgs (), the SM Higgs () and a neutrino
(). If the lifetime of is ~O() sec, the resulting neutrino
flux can fit data consistently. The neutrino flux from in our model is softer than the one predicted from , for example. We also discuss a possible mechanism to produce DM with the
right relic abundance.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures, references added, minor changes, published
versio
Pinned Bilayer Wigner Crystals with Pseudospin Magnetism
We study a model of \textit{pinned} bilayer Wigner crystals (WC) and focus on
the effects of interlayer coherence (IC) on pinning. We consider both a
pseudospin ferromagnetic WC (FMWC) with IC and a pseudospin antiferromagnetic
WC (AFMWC) without IC. Our central finding is that a FMWC can be pinned more
strongly due to the presence of IC. One specific mechanism is through the
disorder induced interlayer tunneling, which effectively manifests as an extra
pinning in a FMWC. We also construct a general "effective disorder" model and
effective pinning Hamiltonian for the case of FMWC and AFMWC respectively.
Under this framework, pinning in the presence of IC involves
\textit{interlayer} spatial correlation of disorder in addition to intralayer
correlation, leading to \textit{enhanced} pinning in the FMWC. The pinning mode
frequency (\wpk) of a FMWC is found to decease with the effective layer
separation, whereas for an AFMWC the opposite behavior is expected. An abrupt
drop of \wpk is predicted at a transition from a FMWC to AFMWC. Possible
effects of in-plane magnetic fields and finite temperatures are addressed.
Finally we discuss some other possible ramifications of the FMWC as an
electronic supersolid-like phase.Comment: Slightly revised. The final version is published on PR
Hidden Charged Dark Matter and Chiral Dark Radiation
In the light of recent possible tensions in the Hubble constant and the
structure growth rate between the Planck and other measurements, we
investigate a hidden-charged dark matter (DM) model where DM interacts with
hidden chiral fermions, which are charged under the hidden SU(N) and U(1) gauge
interactions. The symmetries in this model assure these fermions to be
massless. The DM in this model, which is a Dirac fermion and singlet under the
hidden SU(N), is also assumed to be charged under the U(1) gauge symmetry,
through which it can interact with the chiral fermions. Below the confinement
scale of SU(N), the hidden quark condensate spontaneously breaks the U(1) gauge
symmetry such that there remains a discrete symmetry, which accounts for the
stability of DM. This condensate also breaks a flavor symmetry in this model
and Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with this flavor symmetry appear below
the confinement scale. The hidden U(1) gauge boson and hidden
quarks/Nambu-Goldstone bosons are components of dark radiation (DR) above/below
the confinement scale. These light fields increase the effective number of
neutrinos by above the confinement scale for
, resolving the tension in the measurements of the Hubble constant by
Planck and Hubble Space Telescope if the confinement scale is eV.
DM and DR continuously scatter with each other via the hidden U(1) gauge
interaction, which suppresses the matter power spectrum and results in a
smaller structure growth rate. The DM sector couples to the Standard Model
sector through the exchange of a real singlet scalar mixing with the Higgs
boson, which makes it possible to probe our model in DM direct detection
experiments. Variants of this model are also discussed, which may offer
alternative ways to investigate this scenario.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figures; v2: version accepted for publication in PL
Black hole hair in generalized scalar-tensor gravity
The most general action for a scalar field coupled to gravity that leads to
second order field equations for both the metric and the scalar --- Horndeski's
theory --- is considered, with the extra assumption that the scalar satisfies
shift symmetry. We show that in such theories the scalar field is forced to
have a nontrivial configuration in black hole spacetimes, unless one carefully
tunes away a linear coupling with the Gauss--Bonnet invariant. Hence, black
holes for generic theories in this class will have hair. This contradicts a
recent no-hair theorem, which seems to have overlooked the presence of this
coupling.Comment: 4+1 pages, PRL versio
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