Closing in on Resonantly Produced Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter

Abstract

We perform an exhaustive scan of the allowed resonant production regime for sterile neutrino dark matter in order to improve constraints for dark matter structures which arise from the non-thermal sterile neutrino energy spectra. Small-scale structure constraints are particularly sensitive to large lepton asymmetries/small mixing angles which result in relatively warmer sterile neutrino momentum distributions. We revisit Milky Way galaxy subhalo count constraints and combine them with recent searches for X-ray emission from sterile neutrino decays. Together they rule out models outside the mass range 7.0 keV < m_nu_s < 36 keV and lepton asymmetries smaller than 15 x 10-6 per unit entropy density at 95 percent CI or greater. We also find that while a portion of the parameter space remains unconstrained, the combination of subhalo counts and X-ray data indicate the candidate 3.55 keV X-ray line signal potentially originating from a 7.1 keV sterile neutrino decay to be disfavored at 93 percent CI.

arXiv comment9 pages, 7 figures, Updated to include additional references, Updated to conform to referee comments and corrections

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