Published January 2, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

All-sky limits on sterile neutrino galactic dark matter obtained with SRG/ART-XC after two years of operations

  • 1. Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117997, Russia
  • 2. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow 101000, Russia
  • 3. Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
  • 4. Physics Department, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia
  • 5. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny 141700, Russia

Description

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.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L021301;
arXiv
arXiv:2303.12673;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100006769;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
5 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

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Copyright
© 2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
22-12-00271
Notes
Contact Email: ezakharov@cosmos.ru; Contact Email: barinov.vvl@gmail.com; Contact Email: rodion@hea.iki.rssi.ru; Contact Email: gorby@ms2.inr.ac.ru; Contact Email: krivonos@cosmos.ru; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
Russian Science Foundation