Galactic Center constraints on self-interacting sterile neutrinos from fermionic dark matter ("ino") models

New Constraints on the Mass of Fermionic Dark Matter from Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are excellent systems to probe the nature of fermionic dark matter due to their high observed dark matter phase-space density. In this work, we review, revise and improve upon previous phase-space considerations to obtain lower bounds on the mass of fermionic dark matter particles. The refinement in the results compared to previous works is realised particularly due to a significantly improved Jeans analysis of the galaxies. We discuss two methods to obtain phase-space bounds on the dark matter mass, one model-independent bound based on Pauli's principle, and the othe…

New constraints on sterile neutrino dark matter from the Galactic Center

We calculate the most stringent constraints up to date on the parameter space for sterile neutrino warm dark matter models possessing a radiative decay channel into X-rays. These constraints arise from the X-ray flux observations from the Galactic center (central parsec), taken by the XMM and NuSTAR missions. We compare the results obtained from using different dark matter density profiles for the Milky Way, such as NFW, Burkert or Einasto, to that produced by the Ruffini-Argüelles-Rueda (RAR) fermionic model, which has the distinct feature of depending on the particle mass. We show that due t…

Common Origin of Active and Sterile Neutrino Masses with Dark Matter

We propose an abelian extension of the Standard Model which can explain the origin of eV scale masses and mixing for active and sterile neutrinos and at the same time providing a natural cold dark matter candidate. One of the three active neutrinos acquires mass at tree level through seesaw mechanism whereas the other two active neutrinos and one sterile neutrino acquire eV scale masses at one-loop level. The model also allows non-trivial mixing between active and sterile neutrinos at one-loop level which could have interesting signatures at neutrino experiments. After the abelian gauge symmet…

早期宇宙中的轻惰性中微子：改变色散关系及与类轴子暗物质耦合的影响

Light Sterile Neutrinos in the Early Universe: Effects of Altered Dispersion Relations and a coupling to Axion-Like Dark Matter

该研究探讨了具有改变色散关系及与类轴子标量场耦合的轻惰性中微子对宇宙学的影响，发现两种效应可分别抑制惰性中微子并产生正确氦丰度，结合两者可开辟新的参数空间。

Imprints of fermionic and bosonic mixed dark matter on the 21-cm signal at cosmic dawn

The 21-cm signal from the epoch of cosmic dawn prior to reionization consists of a promising observable to gain new insights into the dark matter (DM) sector. In this paper, we investigate its potential to constrain mixed (cold + non-cold) dark matter scenarios that are characterised by the non-cold DM fraction ($f_{\rm nCDM}$) and particle mass ($m_{\rm nCDM}$). As non-cold DM species, we investigate both a fermionic (sterile neutrino) and a bosonic (ultra-light axion) particle. We show how these scenarios affect the global signal and the power spectrum using a halo-model implementation of th…

Dark Matter in the minimal Inverse Seesaw mechanism

We consider the possibility of simultaneously addressing the dark matter problem and neutrino mass generation in the minimal inverse seesaw realisation. The Standard Model is extended by two right-handed neutrinos and three sterile fermionic states, leading to three light active neutrino mass eigenstates, two pairs of (heavy) pseudo-Dirac mass eigenstates and one (mostly) sterile state with mass around the keV, possibly providing a dark matter candidate, and accounting for the recently observed and still unidentified monochromatic 3.5 keV line in galaxy cluster spectra. The conventional produc…