Closing in on Resonantly Produced Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter
| Autor: | Cherry, John F., Horiuchi, Shunsaku |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. D 95, 083015 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.083015 |
| Popis: | We perform an exhaustive scan of the allowed resonant production regime for sterile neutrino dark matter in order to improve constraints for dark matter structures which arise from the non-thermal sterile neutrino energy spectra. Small-scale structure constraints are particularly sensitive to large lepton asymmetries/small mixing angles which result in relatively warmer sterile neutrino momentum distributions. We revisit Milky Way galaxy subhalo count constraints and combine them with recent searches for X-ray emission from sterile neutrino decays. Together they rule out models outside the mass range 7.0 keV < m_nu_s < 36 keV and lepton asymmetries smaller than 15 x 10-6 per unit entropy density at 95 percent CI or greater. We also find that while a portion of the parameter space remains unconstrained, the combination of subhalo counts and X-ray data indicate the candidate 3.55 keV X-ray line signal potentially originating from a 7.1 keV sterile neutrino decay to be disfavored at 93 percent CI. Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, Updated to include additional references, Updated to conform to referee comments and corrections |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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