Supernova Bounds on keV-mass Sterile Neutrinos
arXiv:1504.02729 · doi:10.1142/S0217751X15300331
Abstract
Sterile neutrinos of keV masses are one of the most promising candidates for the warm dark matter, which could solve the small-scale problems encountered in the scenario of cold dark matter. We present a detailed study of the production of such sterile neutrinos in a supernova core, and derive stringent bounds on the active-sterile neutrino mixing angles and sterile neutrino masses based on the standard energy-loss argument.
10 pages, 2 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of International Conference on Massive Neutrinos, Singapore, February 9-13, 2015. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1109.3187
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