Constraints on sterile neutrino dark matter
- 27 July 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 74 (2), 023527
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.74.023527
Abstract
We present a comprehensive analysis of constraints on the sterile neutrino as a dark matter candidate. The minimal production scenario with a standard thermal history and negligible cosmological lepton number is in conflict with conservative radiative decay constraints from the cosmic X-ray background in combination with stringent small-scale structure limits from the Lyman-alpha forest. We show that entropy release through massive particle decay after production does not alleviate these constraints. We further show that radiative decay constraints from local group dwarf galaxies are subject to large uncertainties in the dark matter density profile of these systems. Within the strongest set of constraints, resonant production of cold sterile neutrino dark matter in nonzero lepton number cosmologies remains allowed.Keywords
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