All-sky limits on sterile neutrino galactic dark matter obtained with SRG/ART-XC after two years of operations
Abstract
Dark matter sterile neutrinos radiatively decay in the Milky Way, which can be tested with searches for almost monochromatic photons in the x-ray cosmic spectrum. We analyse the data of SRG/ART-XC telescope operated for two years in the all-sky survey mode. With no significant hints in the Galactic diffuse x-ray spectrum we explore models with sterile neutrino masses in 12-40 keV range and exclude corresponding regions of sterile-active neutrino mixing.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- January 2024
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L021301
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2303.12673
- Bibcode:
- 2024PhRvD.109b1301Z
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 5 figures. Published in Phys. Rev. D