Sterile neutrino dark matter / Alexander Merle, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany

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Merle, Alexander [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: IOP concise physics | [IOP release 3]Publisher: San Rafael, CA : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2017]Publisher: Bristol : IOP Publishing, [2017]Copyright date: © 2017Edition: Version: 20170301Description: 1 Online-Ressource (verschiedene Seitenzählungen) : Illustrationen, DiagrammeISBN:

9781681744810
9781681744834
1681744813
168174483X

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Summary: This book is a new look at one of the hottest topics in contemporary science, Dark Matter. It is the pioneering text dedicated to sterile neutrinos as candidate particles for Dark Matter, challenging some of the standard assumptions which may be true for some Dark Matter candidates but not for all. So, this can be seen either as an introduction to a specialized topic or an out-of-the-box introduction to the field of Dark Matter in general. No matter if you are a theoretical particle physicist, an observational astronomer, or a ground-based experimentalist, no matter if you are a grad student or an active researcher, you can benefit from this text, for a simple reason: a non-standard candidate for Dark Matter can teach you a lot about what we truly know about our standard picture of how the Universe worksSummary: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- 1. Introduction : dark matter- what we do and don't know -- 1.1 Observational evidence for dark matter -- 1.2 Explanations for dark matter -- 1.3 Sterile neutrinos as dark matterSummary: 2. Sterile neutrinos-almost part of the standard model -- 2.1 Fermion masses in the standard model -- 2.2 Why neutrino masses seem peculiar -- 2.3 Explaining sterile neutrino masses and mixingsSummary: 3. Dark matter-fossils from the early universe -- 3.1 General thoughts on the dark matter production -- 3.2 Thermal freeze-out -- 3.3 Non-thermal distribution functions -- 3.4 Production mechanisms for keV sterile neutrinosSummary: 4. A very big small effect-production by active-sterile mixing -- 4.1 The freeze-in mechanism -- 4.2. Non-resonant production: Dodelson-Widrow mechanism -- 4.3 Resonant production: Shi-Fuller mechanismSummary: 5. Resurrection from the downfall-production by particle decay -- 5.1 Two-step production of dark matter -- 5.2 Scalar freezing in -- 5.3 Scalar freezing out -- The Dodelson-Widrow modificationSummary: 6. The emergence of order-cosmic structure formation -- 6.1 The Tremaine-Gunn bound -- 6.2 The free-streaming horizon -- 6.3 The evolution equations for cosmic structure formation -- 6.4 The matter power spectrum -- 6.5 Bounds from and implications for structure formationSummary: 7. Consult the stars for an answer-astrophysical signals -- 7.1 The radiative decay of the sterile neutrino -- 7.2 Pulsar kicks -- 7.3 Bounds from supernovae -- 7.4 Putting all astrophysical constraints togetherSummary: 8. The needle in the dark haystack-experimental attempts -- 8.1 Single beta decay -- 8.2 Electron capture decays -- 8.3 Sterile neutrino capture on stable nuclei -- 8.4 Drawing conclusions from active-neutrino experiment and getting a global pictureSummary: 9. What to take home-conclusions and outlookPPN: PPN: 884015319Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-135-IAL | ZDB-135-ICP

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