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Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter Candidates

by Joachim Kopp

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Joachim Kopp
Submission information
Preprint Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00767v2  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2021-11-09
Date submitted: 2021-10-27 16:21
Submitted by: Kopp, Joachim
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Lecture Notes
Ontological classification
Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • Gravitation, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Approaches: Theoretical, Phenomenological

Abstract

In these brief lecture notes, we introduce sterile neutrinos as dark matter candidates. We discuss in particular their production via oscillations, their radiative decay, as well as possible observational signatures and constraints.

List of changes

the changes to the manuscript are detailed in the diff file I submitted resubmitted in response to the report from Referee #3

Published as SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 36 (2022)

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