Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Cries for GeV Heavy Neutral Leptons

arXiv:2609.28457 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-ex · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-ex

Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abundance — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Effective Hamiltonian — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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