Klaus, Alexander: Sterile neutrino dark matter from the cosmic QCD epoch. 2021
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Beyond the Standard Model
- General introduction to sterile neutrinos
- Different mass scales solve different problems
- Sterile neutrino dark matter today
- Production in the early Universe
- Non-equilibrium evolution equations
- Impact of active-neutrino opacities
- Parameter constraints for resonant production
- Lower mixing angle bounds from BBN and CMB
- Lower mass bounds from the Lyman- forest
- Combined constraints
- Enhanced production from self-interacting neutrinos
- Summary and conclusions
- Emergence of resonances with increasing lepton asymmetries
- Opacity calculation
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- References
- Acknowledgements