Cosmological dependence of sterile neutrino dark matter with self-interacting neutrinos
Abstract
Unexplored interactions of neutrinos could be the key to understanding the nature of the dark matter (DM). In particular, active neutrinos with new self-interactions can produce keV-mass sterile neutrinos that account for the whole of the DM through the Dodelson-Widrow mechanism for a large range of active-sterile mixing values. This production typically occurs before Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) in a yet uncharted era of the Universe. We assess how the mixing range for keV-mass sterile neutrino DM is affected by the uncertainty in the early Universe pre-BBN cosmology. This is particularly relevant for identifying the viable parameter space of sterile neutrino searches allowed by all astrophysical limits, as well as for cosmology, since the detection of a sterile neutrino could constitute the first observation of a particle providing information about the pre-BBN epoch. Here, we find that the combined uncertainties in the early Universe cosmology and neutrino interactions significantly expand the allowed parameter space for sterile neutrinos that can constitute the whole of the DM.
- Authors:
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- California State Univ., Northridge, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Seoul National Univ. (Korea)
- Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba (Japan); High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Ibaraki (Japan)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1905605
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0009937; PHY-1607611
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 2022; Journal Issue: 09; Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516
- Publisher:
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Citation Formats
Chichiri, Carlos, Gelmini, Graciela B., Lu, Philip, and Takhistov, Volodymyr. Cosmological dependence of sterile neutrino dark matter with self-interacting neutrinos. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2022/09/036.
Chichiri, Carlos, Gelmini, Graciela B., Lu, Philip, & Takhistov, Volodymyr. Cosmological dependence of sterile neutrino dark matter with self-interacting neutrinos. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/09/036
Chichiri, Carlos, Gelmini, Graciela B., Lu, Philip, and Takhistov, Volodymyr. Mon .
"Cosmological dependence of sterile neutrino dark matter with self-interacting neutrinos". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/09/036. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1905605.
@article{osti_1905605,
title = {Cosmological dependence of sterile neutrino dark matter with self-interacting neutrinos},
author = {Chichiri, Carlos and Gelmini, Graciela B. and Lu, Philip and Takhistov, Volodymyr},
abstractNote = {Unexplored interactions of neutrinos could be the key to understanding the nature of the dark matter (DM). In particular, active neutrinos with new self-interactions can produce keV-mass sterile neutrinos that account for the whole of the DM through the Dodelson-Widrow mechanism for a large range of active-sterile mixing values. This production typically occurs before Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) in a yet uncharted era of the Universe. We assess how the mixing range for keV-mass sterile neutrino DM is affected by the uncertainty in the early Universe pre-BBN cosmology. This is particularly relevant for identifying the viable parameter space of sterile neutrino searches allowed by all astrophysical limits, as well as for cosmology, since the detection of a sterile neutrino could constitute the first observation of a particle providing information about the pre-BBN epoch. Here, we find that the combined uncertainties in the early Universe cosmology and neutrino interactions significantly expand the allowed parameter space for sterile neutrinos that can constitute the whole of the DM.},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2022/09/036},
journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
number = 09,
volume = 2022,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Mon Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}
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