Sterile neutrino dark matter via coinciding resonances
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2020-07-08 v2
Abstract
It has been proposed that two resonances could coincide in the early universe at temperatures GeV: one between two nearly degenerate GeV-scale sterile neutrinos, producing a large lepton asymmetry through freeze-out and decays; another between medium-modified active neutrinos and keV-scale sterile neutrinos, converting the lepton asymmetry into dark matter. Making use of a framework which tracks three sterile neutrinos of both helicities as well as three separate lepton asymmetries, and scanning the parameter space of the GeV-scale species, we establish the degree of fine-tuning that is needed for realizing this scenario.
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@article{arxiv.2004.10766,
title = {Sterile neutrino dark matter via coinciding resonances},
author = {J. Ghiglieri and M. Laine},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.10766},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
14 pages. v2: clarification added