Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter from Freeze-In

Abstract

A sterile neutrino is a well-motivated and widely studied dark matter candidate. The most straightforward realization of sterile neutrino dark matter, through the Dodelson-Widrow mechanism, is now ruled out by a combination of X-ray and Lyman-αmeasurements. An alternative production mechanism that is becoming increasingly popular in the literature is the freeze-in mechanism, involving frameworks where a feeble coupling to a particle - usually a scalar beyond the Standard Model - in the thermal bath results in a gradual accumulation of the sterile neutrino dark matter abundance. This article reviews the various motivations for realizing such frameworks in the literature, their common characteristic features, and phenomenological signatures.

Invited review article for Modern Physics Letters A

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