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We study sterile neutrino dark matter (DM) in a classically conformal U(1)' extension of the Standard Model with three right-handed neutrinos and a Majoron-like singlet scalar that generate the observed pattern of active neutrino masses and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-13 João Gonçalves , Danny Marfatia , António P. Morais , Vinícius Oliveira , Roman Pasechnik

Sterile neutrinos are compelling dark matter (DM) candidates, yet the minimal production mechanism solely based on active ($\nu_a$)-sterile ($\nu_s$) oscillations is excluded by astrophysical observations. Non-standard self-interactions in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Bhaskar Dutta , Srubabati Goswami , Jianrong Paul Tang , Aaroodd Ujjayini Ramachandran

We determine constraints on sterile neutrino warm dark matter through direct detection experiments, taking XENON100, XENON1T and DARWIN as examples. If keV-scale sterile neutrinos scatter inelastically with bound electrons of the target…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-11 Miguel D. Campos , Werner Rodejohann

Neutrino self-interactions beyond the standard model have profound implications in astrophysics and cosmology. In this Letter, we study an uncharted scenario in which one of the three neutrino species has a mass smaller than the temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-30 Isaac R. Wang , Xun-Jie Xu , Bei Zhou

Sterile neutrinos are well-motivated and simple dark matter (DM) candidates. However, sterile neutrino DM produced through oscillations by the Dodelson-Widrow mechanism is excluded by current $X$-ray observations and bounds from structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-16 Maria Dias Astros , Stefan Vogl

In this work we revisit the question of whether Cosmology can be made compatible with scenarios with light sterile neutrinos, as invoked to explain the SBL anomalies, in the presence of self-interaction among sterile neutrinos mediated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Ningqiang Song , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Jordi Salvado

The XENON1T collaboration recently reported the excess of events from recoil electrons, possibly giving an insight into new area beyond the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. We try to explain this excess by considering effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-11 Soroush Shakeri , Fazlollah Hajkarim , She-Sheng Xue

Sterile neutrinos with masses at the $\mathrm{keV}$ scale and mixing to the active neutrinos offer an elegant explanation of the observed dark matter (DM) density. However, the very same mixing inevitably leads to radiative photon emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-02 Kaori Fuyuto , Jacky Kumar , Emanuele Mereghetti , Stefan Sandner , Chen Sun

The regime of dark matter (DM) freeze-in at stronger coupling interpolates between freeze-in and freeze-out. It relies on Boltzmann-suppressed dark matter production, implying that the Standard Model bath temperature never exceeds the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Niko Koivunen , Oleg Lebedev , Martti Raidal

We present a short discussion of the Neutrino-4 experimental results and the results of other experiments searching for the sterile neutrino. We estimated the contribution of the sterile neutrino with parameters $\Delta m^2_{14} =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-15 A. P. Serebrov , R. M. Samoilov , M. E. Chaikovskii , O. M. Zherebtsov

Sterile neutrinos offer a minimal and testable explanation for dark matter (DM), with their radiative decay actively searched for in X-ray observations. We show that cold sterile neutrino DM can be efficiently produced during reheating from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-08 James M. Cline , Yong Xu

The Hubble parameter inferred from cosmic microwave background observations is consistently lower than that from local measurements, which could hint towards new physics. Solutions to the Hubble tension typically require a sizable amount of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Guo-yuan Huang , Werner Rodejohann

We present a realistic, simple and natural model of strongly-interacting dark matter based on the neutrino-portal paradigm. The strong interactions at small velocities are generated by the exchange of dark photons, and produce the observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-20 J. M. Lamprea , E. Peinado , S. Smolenski , J. Wudka

It has been suggested that the baseline scenario of collisionless cold dark matter over-predicts the numbers of satellite galaxies, as well as the dark matter (DM) densities in galactic centers. This apparent lack of structure at small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-06 John F. Cherry , Alexander Friedland , Ian M. Shoemaker

Sterile neutrino dark matter, a popular alternative to the WIMP paradigm, has generally been studied in non-supersymmetric setups. If the underlying theory is supersymmetric, we find that several interesting and novel dark matter features…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Bibhushan Shakya , James D. Wells

In this work we analyse the ultimate sensitivity of dark matter direct detection experiments, the "neutrino-floor", in the presence of anomalous sources of dark radiation in form of SM or semi-sterile neutrinos. This flux-component is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-01 Marco Nikolic , Suchita Kulkarni , Josef Pradler

The elastic nuclear recoil signal, being under intense scrutiny by multiple underground experiments, can be interpreted either as coming from the interaction of nuclei with WIMP dark matter or from the scattering of new species of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-26 Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

We propose a simple scenario that directly connects the dark matter (DM) and neutrino mass scales. Based on an interaction between the DM particle $\chi$ and the neutrino $\nu$ of the form $\chi\chi\nu\nu/\Lambda^2$, the DM annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Wei-Chih Huang , Frank F. Deppisch

We present a comprehensive analysis of the interactions of neutrinos with the dark sector within the simplified model framework. We first derive the exact analytic formulas for the differential scattering cross sections of neutrinos with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-02 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Doojin Kim , Deepak Sathyan , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

Dark matter and neutrinos provide the two most compelling pieces of evidence for new physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics but they are often treated as two different sectors. The aim of this paper is to determine whether…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Andres Olivares-Del Campo , Celine Boehm , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Silvia Pascoli