Constraints on sterile neutrinos as dark matter candidates from the diffuse X-ray background

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 370, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 213-218

  Boyarsky, A ^a,b,f   Neronov, A ^c,d   Ruchayskiy, O ^e   Shaposhnikov, M ^a,b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^f BOGOLYUBOV INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Neutrinos; X rays: diffuse background

Indexed keywords

NEUTRONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

'CURRENT; DARK MATTER; DETECTABLE SIGNAL; MODEL INDEPENDENT; NEUTRINO MASS; NEUTRINO MIXING; STERILE NEUTRINOS; UNCERTAINTY; X-RAY BACKGROUND; X-RAYS: DIFFUSE BACKGROUND;

GALAXIES;

EID: 33746051659     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10458.x     Document Type: Article

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