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@ARTICLE{Bianco:625915,
author = {Bianco, Sara and Depta, Paul Frederik and Frerick, Jonas
and Hambye, Thomas and Hufnagel, Marco and Schmidt-Hoberg,
Kai},
title = {{P}hoto- and {H}adrodisintegration constraints on massive
relics decaying into neutrinos},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-01239, DESY-25-056. arXiv:2505.01492.
ULB-TH/25-03},
year = {2025},
note = {67 pages, 19 figures},
abstract = {We perform a detailed study of the cosmological constraints
on the decay of a relic particle $\phi$ into neutrinos,
$\phi \rightarrow \nu \bar{\nu}$, in particular those
arising from the observed light-element abundances in the
early Universe. We focus on the late-time disintegration of
the light elements previously synthesised during BBN.
Several processes are relevant, including final-state
radiation associated with the decay, as well as subsequent
interactions of the injected neutrinos with the thermal
background neutrinos or between themselves. All processes
generically contribute to the production of electromagnetic
and often also hadronic material and may therefore induce
late-time photodisintegration and hadrodisintegration
reactions, i.e.~the destruction of light elements that have
previously been formed during BBN. Here, we examine this
scenario with a Monte-Carlo inspired probabilistic approach
rather than Boltzmann techniques, taking into account all of
these different reactions as well as their interplay. We
find the resulting constraints to be very significant,
covering a broad range of previously unexplored masses and
lifetimes of the relic source particle.},
cin = {T},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)T-20120731},
pnm = {611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF4-611) / DFG
project G:(GEPRIS)390833306 - EXC 2121: Quantum Universe
(390833306)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-611 / G:(GEPRIS)390833306},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25},
eprint = {2505.01492},
howpublished = {arXiv:2505.01492},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2505.01492;\%\%$},
doi = {10.3204/PUBDB-2025-01239},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/625915},
}