Dark Matter and Dark Energy via Non-Perturbative (Flavour) Vacua

TL;DR

This paper explores a non-perturbative approach to flavour physics, suggesting that the flavour vacuum could explain dark energy and dark matter phenomena with minimal parameters, providing insights into their energy hierarchy.

Contribution

It introduces a novel non-perturbative framework for flavour vacua that links neutrino physics to dark energy and dark matter, with potential predictive power.

Findings

The flavour vacuum can act as a source of dark energy and dark matter.

The model predicts the energy hierarchy between neutrinos, dark energy, and dark matter.

No additional parameters are needed beyond those related to neutrino physics.

Abstract

A non-perturbative field theoretical approach to flavour physics (Blasone-Vitiello formalism) has been shown to imply a highly non-trivial vacuum state. In a previous work, we implemented the approach on a simple supersymmetric model (free Wess-Zumino), with flavour mixing, which was regarded as a model for free neutrinos and sneutrinos. The resulting effective vacuum (called "flavour vacuum") was found to be characterized by a strong SUSY breaking. In this paper we explore the phenomenology of the model and we argue that the flavour vacuum is a consistent source for both Dark Energy (thanks to the bosonic sector of the model) and Dark Matter (via the fermionic one). Quite remarkably, besides the parameters connected with neutrino physics, in this model no other parameters have been introduced, possibly leading to a predictive theory of Dark Energy/Matter. Despite its oversimplification, such a toy model already seems capable to shed some light on the observed energy hierarchy between neutrino physics, Dark Energy and Dark Matter. Furthermore, we move a step forth in the construction of a more realistic theory, by presenting a novel approach for calculating relevant quantities and hence extending some results to interactive theories, in a completely non-perturbative way.