Astronomical constraints on properties of sterile neutrino dark matter

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Apr 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011ap%26ss.332..437c&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 332, Issue 2, pp.437-440

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Dark Matter, Cosmology

Scientific paper

We consider sterile neutrinos as a component of dark matter in the Milky Way and clusters, and compare their rest mass, decay rate and the mixing angle. A radiative decaying rate of order Γ˜10-19 s-1 for sterile neutrino rest mass m s =18-19 keV can satisfactorily account for the cooling flow problem and heating source in Milky Way center simultaneously. Also, these ranges of decay rate and rest mass match the prediction of the mixing angle sin 22 θ˜10-3 with a low reheating temperature in the inflation model, which enables the sterile-active neutrino oscillation to be visible in future experiments. However, decaying sterile neutrinos have to be ruled out as a major component of dark matter because of the high decay rate.

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