Intimate Relationship between Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter and ΔN_{eff}

The self-interacting neutrino hypothesis is well motivated for addressing the tension between the origin of sterile neutrino dark matter and indirect detection constraints. It can also result in a number of testable signals from the laboratories to the cosmos. We show that, in a broad class of models, where the sterile neutrino dark matter relic density is generated by a light neutrinophilic mediator, there must be a lower bound on the amount of extra radiation in early Universe, in particular, ΔN_{eff}>0.12 at the cosmic microwave background (CMB) epoch. This lower bound will be further strengthened with an improved x-ray search at the Athena observatory. Such an intimate relationship will be unambiguously tested by the upcoming CMB Stage 4 project.

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2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:127

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Physical review letters - 127(2021), 4 vom: 23. Juli, Seite 041101

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kelly, Kevin J [VerfasserIn]
Sen, Manibrata [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yue [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 09.08.2021

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.041101

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NLM329002627