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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 T0.2...0.5T \sim 0.2 ... 0.5 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}
}

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14 pages. v2: clarification added