A fresh look at keV sterile neutrino dark matter from frozen-in scalars

Adisorn Adulpravitchai (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand) ; Michael Schmidt (ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia)

Sterile neutrinos with a mass of a few keV can serve as cosmological warm dark matter. We study the production of keV sterile neutrinos in the early universe from the decay of a frozen-in scalar. Previous studies focused on heavy frozen-in scalars with masses above the Higgs mass leading to a hot spectrum for sterile neutrinos with masses below 8 − 10 keV. Motivated by the recent hints for an X-ray line at 3.55 keV, we extend the analysis to lighter frozen-in scalars, which allow for a cooler spectrum. Below the electroweak phase transition, several qualitatively new channels start contributing. The most important ones are annihilation into electroweak vector bosons, particularly W -bosons as well as Higgs decay into pairs of frozen-in scalars when kinematically allowed.

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Published on:
07 January 2015
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Springer/SISSA
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics (2015)

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2015)006
arXiv:
1409.4330
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The Author(s)
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CC-BY-4.0

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