A White Paper on keV sterile neutrino Dark Matter

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61389005%3A_____%2F17%3A00475646" target="_blank" >RIV/61389005:_____/17:00475646 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/01/025" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/01/025</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/01/025" target="_blank" >10.1088/1475-7516/2017/01/025</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A White Paper on keV sterile neutrino Dark Matter

Original language description

We present a comprehensive review of keV-scale sterile neutrino Dark Matter, collecting views and insights from all disciplines involved - cosmology, astrophysics, nuclear, and particle physics - in each case viewed from both theoretical and experimental/observational perspectives. After reviewing the role of active neutrinos in particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, we focus on sterile neutrinos in the context of the Dark Matter puzzle. Here, we first review the physics motivation for sterile neutrino Dark Matter, based on challenges and tensions in purely cold Dark Matter scenarios. We then round out the discussion by critically summarizing all known constraints on sterile neutrino Dark Matter arising from astrophysical observations, laboratory experiments, and theoretical considerations. In this context, we provide a balanced discourse on the possibly positive signal from X-ray observations. Another focus of the paper concerns the construction of particle physics models, aiming to explain how sterile neutrinos of keV-scale masses could arise in concrete settings beyond the Standard Model of elementary particle physics. The paper ends with an extensive review of current and future astrophysical and laboratory searches, highlighting new ideas and their experimental challenges, as well as future perspectives for the discovery of sterile neutrinos.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP203%2F12%2F1896" target="_blank" >GAP203/12/1896: Czech Participation in International Neutrino Experiment KATRIN</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

ISSN

1475-7516

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

247

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000399409800025

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85013055118