scholarly journals Searching for dark matter sterile neutrinos in the laboratory

2007 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fedor Bezrukov ◽  
Mikhail Shaposhnikov
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos

scholarly journals Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter: Alternative Production Mechanisms in the Early Universe

Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Daniel Boyanovsky
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Distribution Function ◽  
Kinetic Equation ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Quantum Kinetic Equation ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Production Mechanisms ◽  
Freeze Out

We study various production mechanisms of sterile neutrinos in the early universe beyond and within the standard model. We obtain the quantum kinetic equations for production and the distribution function of sterile-like neutrinos at freeze-out, from which we obtain free streaming lengths, equations of state and coarse grained phase space densities. In a simple extension beyond the standard model, in which neutrinos are Yukawa coupled to a Higgs-like scalar, we derive and solve the quantum kinetic equation for sterile production and analyze the freeze-out conditions and clustering properties of this dark matter constituent. We argue that in the mass basis, standard model processes that produce active neutrinos also yield sterile-like neutrinos, leading to various possible production channels. Hence, the final distribution function of sterile-like neutrinos is a result of the various kinematically allowed production processes in the early universe. As an explicit example, we consider production of light sterile neutrinos from pion decay after the QCD phase transition, obtaining the quantum kinetic equation and the distribution function at freeze-out. A sterile-like neutrino with a mass in the keV range produced by this process is a suitable warm dark matter candidate with a free-streaming length of the order of few kpc consistent with cores in dwarf galaxies.

scholarly journals The dark matter interpretation of the 3.5-keV line is inconsistent with blank-sky observations

Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 367 (6485) ◽  
pp. 1465-1467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Dessert ◽  
Nicholas L. Rodd ◽  
Benjamin R. Safdi
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Emission Line ◽  
Decay Rate ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Line Emission ◽  
Mass Range ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Upper Limit ◽  
Nearby Galaxies

Observations of nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters have reported an unexpected x-ray emission line around 3.5 kilo–electron volts (keV). Proposals to explain this line include decaying dark matter—in particular, that the decay of sterile neutrinos with a mass around 7 keV could match the available data. If this interpretation is correct, the 3.5-keV line should also be emitted by dark matter in the halo of the Milky Way. We used more than 30 megaseconds of XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission) blank-sky observations to test this hypothesis, finding no evidence of the 3.5-keV line emission from the Milky Way halo. We set an upper limit on the decay rate of dark matter in this mass range, which is inconsistent with the possibility that the 3.5-keV line originates from dark matter decay.

scholarly journals Particle Physics with ORCA

2019 ◽  
Vol 207 ◽  
pp. 04003
Author(s):  
Alba Domi ◽  
Simon Bourret ◽  
Liam Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Neutrino Telescope ◽  
Atmospheric Neutrinos ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Tau Neutrino ◽  
Neutrino Astronomy ◽  
Under Construction

KM3NeT is a Megaton-scale neutrino telescope currently under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. When completed, it will consist of two separate detectors: ARCA (Astroparticle Research with Cosmics in the Abyss), optimised for high-energy neutrino astronomy, and ORCA (Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss) for neutrino oscillation studies of atmospheric neutrinos. The main goal of ORCA is the determination of the neutrino mass ordering (NMO). Nevertheless it is possible to exploit ORCA’s configuration to make other important measurements, such as sterile neutrinos, non standard interactions, tau-neutrino appearance, neutrinos from Supernovae, Dark Matter and Earth Tomography studies. Part of these analyses are summarized here.

scholarly journals Cosmology with self-interacting sterile neutrinos and dark matter: A pseudoscalar model

2015 ◽  
Vol 91 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Archidiacono ◽  
Steen Hannestad ◽  
Rasmus Sloth Hansen ◽  
Thomas Tram
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos

scholarly journals The Lyman-α forest as a diagnostic of the nature of the dark matter

2019 ◽  
Vol 489 (3) ◽  
pp. 3456-3471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Garzilli ◽  
Andrii Magalich ◽  
Tom Theuns ◽  
Carlos S Frenk ◽  
Christoph Weniger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Power Spectrum ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Thermal Effects ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Hydrodynamic Simulations ◽  
Very High

ABSTRACT The observed Lyman-α flux power spectrum (FPS) is suppressed on scales below ${\sim} ~ 30\, {\rm km\, s}^{-1}$. This cut-off could be due to the high temperature, T0, and pressure, p0, of the absorbing gas or, alternatively, it could reflect the free streaming of dark matter particles in the early universe. We perform a set of very high resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations in which we vary T0, p0, and the amplitude of the dark matter free streaming, and compare the FPS of mock spectra to the data. We show that the location of the dark matter free-streaming cut-off scales differently with redshift than the cut-off produced by thermal effects and is more pronounced at higher redshift. We, therefore, focus on a comparison to the observed FPS at z > 5. We demonstrate that the FPS cut-off can be fit assuming cold dark matter, but it can be equally well fit assuming that the dark matter consists of ∼7 keV sterile neutrinos in which case the cut-off is due primarily to the dark matter free streaming.

scholarly journals The halo mass function in alternative dark matter models

2020 ◽  
Vol 493 (1) ◽  
pp. L11-L15 ◽  
Author(s):  
M R Lovell
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Power Spectrum ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Matter Power Spectrum ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Good Agreement

ABSTRACT The claimed detection of large amounts of substructure in lensing flux anomalies, and in Milky Way stellar stream gap statistics, has led to a step change in constraints on simple warm dark matter models. In this study, we compute predictions for the halo mass function both for these simple models and for comprehensive particle physics models of sterile neutrinos and dark acoustic oscillations. We show that the mass function fit of Lovell et al. underestimates the number of haloes less massive than the half-mode mass, $M_\mathrm {hm}$, by a factor of 2, relative to the extended Press–Schechter (EPS) method. The alternative approach of applying EPS to the Viel et al. matter power spectrum fit instead suggests good agreement at $M_\mathrm {hm}$ relative to the comprehensive model matter power spectrum results, although the number of haloes with mass $\rm{\lt} M_\mathrm {hm}$ is still suppressed due to the absence of small-scale power in the fitting function. Overall, we find that the number of dark matter haloes with masses $\rm{\lt} 10^{8}{\, \rm M_\odot }$ predicted by competitive particle physics models is underestimated by a factor of ∼2 when applying popular fitting functions, although careful studies that follow the stripping and destruction of subhaloes will be required in order to draw robust conclusions.

scholarly journals Sterile neutrinos and light dark matter save each other

2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiu Man Ho ◽  
Robert J. Scherrer
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos
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