Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter Candidates

Abstract

In these brief lecture notes, we introduce sterile neutrinos as dark matter candidates. We discuss in particular their production via oscillations, their radiative decay, as well as possible observational signatures and constraints.

10 pages, 2 figures; submitted to SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, Les Houches Summer School Series; v2: minor additions and rewording based on the referees' comments

References in corpus (3)

• Sterile Neutrinos
• Constraints from Ly-$\alpha$ forests on non-thermal dark matter including resonantly-produced sterile neutrinos
• New Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter from $NuSTAR$ M31 Observations

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