Sterile neutrino dark matter: relativistic freeze-out

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Oleg Lebedev
Takashi Toma
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[1] Department of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics,Institute of Liberal Arts and Science
[2] Kanazawa University,Institute for Theoretical Physics
[3] Kanazawa University,undefined
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Particle Nature of Dark Matter; Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos; Early Universe Particle Physics; Models for Dark Matter;
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Long-lived sterile neutrinos can play the role of dark matter. We consider the possibility that such neutrinos form a thermal bath with a singlet scalar, while not being in thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model fields. Eventually, the neutrino dark matter undergoes freeze-out in the dark sector, which can occur in both non-relativistic and relativistic regimes. To account for the latter possibility, we use the full Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distribution functions with effective chemical potential in the reaction rate computation. This allows us to study the freeze-out process in detail and also obtain the necessary thermalization conditions. We find that relativistic freeze-out occurs in a relatively small part of the parameter space. In contrast to the standard weakly-interacting-massive-particle (WIMP) scenario, the allowed dark matter masses extend to 104 TeV without conflicting perturbativity.
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