Closing the Window on Warm Dark Matter

Preprint

6 June 2001

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

Sterile neutrinos may be one of the best Warm Dark Matter candidates we have today. Both lower and upper bounds on the mass of the sterile neutrino come from astronomical observations. We show that the proper inclusion of the neutrino momentum distribution and the solution of the kinetic equations with the correct coherence breaking terms lead to the near exclusion of the sterile neutrino as a dark matter candidate.

Keywords

STERILE NEUTRINO
WARM DARK MATTER
MATTER CANDIDATE
MATTER STERILE
KINETIC

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Published version: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 333 (3), 544.

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