4.6 Article

Warm Dark Matter from keVins

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IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/08/016

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dark matter theory; cosmology of theories beyond the SM; cosmological neutrinos

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  1. STFC Consolidated [ST/J000396/1]
  2. EU FIN [UNILHC 237920, INVISIBLES 289442]
  3. Goran Gustafsson foundation
  4. Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship within European Community [PIEF-GA-2011-297557]
  5. Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J000396/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  6. STFC [ST/J000396/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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We propose a simple model for Warm Dark Matte (WDM) in which two femions are added to the Standard,Model: (quasi-) stable keVins (keV inert fermions) which account for WDM and their unstable brothers, the GeVins (GeV inert fermions), both of which carry zero electric charge and zero lepton number, and are (approximately) inert, in the sense that their only interactions are via suppressed couplings to the Z. We consider scenarios in which stable keVins are thermally produced and their abundance is subsequently diluted by entropy production from the decays of the heavier unstable GeVins. This mechanism could be implemented in a wide variety of models, including E-6 inspired supersymmetric models or models involving sterile neutrinos.

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