New production mechanism for keV sterile neutrino Dark Matter by decays of frozen-in scalars

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Merle, Alexander ^a   Niro, Viviana ^b   Schmidt, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

dark matter theory; neutrino theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897538183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/03/028     Document Type: Article

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