1-5 July 2019
The University of Manchester
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The Local Organising Committee
More room for sterile neutrino dark matter
Presented by Prof. Dmitry GORBUNOV
on
2 Jul 2019
from
17:20
to
17:40
Content
Sterile neutrinos is one of the possible physics beyond the Standard
Model motivated by neutrino oscillations. Stable at cosmological
time-scale sterile neutrinos may serve as dark matter. Typically, with
mass in keV range, the sterile neutrinos form Warm dark matter and
radiatively decay in galaxies providing X-ray telescopes with a
prominent signature. Extensive searches for the sterile neutrino dark
matter significantly reduced viable regions in the model parameter
space. However, the situation changes with just one new ingredient --
a scalar field with Yukawa coupling to the sterile neutrinos. This
scalar modifies the sterile neutrino production in the early
Universe. Depending on the scalar field dynamics it makes models with
large(small) active-sterile mixing cosmologically viable(interesting)
Place
Location: Schuster
Room: Annex: Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre