Pith. sign in

REVIEW 5 cited by

Dark Matter Relic Abundance and Light Sterile Neutrinos

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 1609.07841 v3 pith:3YJT326S submitted 2016-09-26 hep-ph

classification hep-ph
keywords steriledarkmatterabundanceneutrinoreliccouplinglarger
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

Signed reviews

No signed human review yet.

0 comments
abstract

In this paper, we calculate the relic abundance of the dark matter particles when they can annihilate into sterile neutrinos with the mass $\lesssim 100 \text{ GeV}$ in a simple model. Unlike the usual standard calculations, the sterile neutrino may fall out of the thermal equilibrium with the thermal bath before the dark matter freezes out. In such a case, if the Yukawa coupling $y_N$ between the Higgs and the sterile neutrino is small, this process gives rise to a larger $\Omega_{\text{DM}} h^2$ so we need a larger coupling between the dark matter and the sterile neutrino for a correct relic abundance.

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 5 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. Cosmological Histories in Neutrino Portal Dark Matter

    hep-ph 2025-06 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A neutrino portal dark sector with mN < mχ < mϕ can be populated by freeze-out, freeze-in, double freeze-in, or by forming a separate cold dark thermal bath, depending on the two portal couplings.

  2. Simulations of the Sterile Neutrino Oscillations with a Crossing-Width Term

    hep-ph 2024-12 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A two-step diagonalization plus a dummy-particle trick lets standard event generators simulate GeV-scale sterile neutrino oscillations with crossing-width terms, and a QFT derivation gives displaced-vertex distances.

  3. Structures of the Massive Vector Boson Propagators at Finite Temperature Illuminated by the Goldstone Equivalence Gauge

    hep-ph 2019-08 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    At finite temperature, a massive vector boson's longitudinal mode sheds part of its Goldstone component, which reappears as a branch cut that can be approximated as a massless quasi-Goldstone with a computed wave-func...

  4. Electroweak right-handed neutrino portal dark matter

    hep-ph 2025-12 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    In neutrino-portal dark matter, ignoring internal dark-sector interactions during freeze-in can underestimate the final relic abundance by 30–95%.

  5. Seesaw Portal to Super Heavy Dark Matter with $Z_3$ Symmetry

    hep-ph 2025-06 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    Adding Z3 symmetry to the seesaw portal allows the dark scalar to decay promptly to dark matter, evading BBN limits for the m_N>m_phi mass ordering.

Pith tools