Sterile neutrino Dark Matter

A. Boyarsky; M. Drewes; T. Lasserre; S. Mertens; O. Ruchayskiy

doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2018.07.004

Sterile neutrino Dark Matter

A. Boyarsky, M. Drewes, T. Lasserre, S. Mertens, O. Ruchayskiy

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Abstract

We review sterile neutrinos as possible Dark Matter candidates. After a short summary on the role of neutrinos in cosmology and particle physics, we give a comprehensive overview of the current status of the research on sterile neutrino Dark Matter. First we discuss the motivation and limits obtained through astrophysical observations. Second, we review different mechanisms of how sterile neutrino Dark Matter could have been produced in the early universe. Finally, we outline a selection of future laboratory searches for keV-scale sterile neutrinos, highlighting their experimental challenges and discovery potential.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-45
Number of pages	45
Journal	Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
Volume	104
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppnp.2018.07.004
State	Published - Jan 2019

Keywords

Dark matter
Dark matter experiments
Indirect dark matter searches
Neutrino models
Sterile neutrino
Warm dark matter

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