期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/09/048
关键词
cosmological neutrinos; particle physics - cosmology connection; cosmology of theories beyond the SM
资金
- German Academy of Science through the Leopoldina Fellowship Programme grant [LPDS 2012-14]
Since only recently, cosmological observations are sensitive to hot dark matter (HDM) admixtures with sub-eV mass, m(hdm)(eff) < eV, that are not fully-thermalised, Delta N-eff < 1. We argue that their almost automatic interpretation as a sterile neutrino species is neither from theoretical nor practical parsimony principles preferred over HDM formed by decay products (daughters) of an out-of-equilibrium particle decay. While daughters mimic sterile neutrinos in N-eff and m(hdm)(eff), there are opportunities to assess this possibility in likelihood analyses. Connecting cosmological parameters and moments of momentum distribution functions, we show that also in the case of mass-degenerate daughters with indistinguishable main physical effects the mimicry breaks down when the next moment, the skewness, is considered. Predicted differences of order one in the root-mean-squares of absolute momenta are too small for current sensitivities.
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