Warm Dark Matter Sterile Neutrinos in Electron Capture and Beta Decay Spectra
We briefly review the motivation to search for sterile neutrinos in the keV mass scale, as dark matter candidates, and the prospects to find them in beta decay or electron capture spectra, with a global perspective. We describe the fundamentals of the neutrino flavor-mass eigenstate mismatch that op...
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| description | We briefly review the motivation to search for sterile neutrinos in the keV mass scale, as dark matter candidates, and the prospects to find them in beta decay or electron capture spectra, with a global perspective. We describe the fundamentals of the neutrino flavor-mass eigenstate mismatch that opens the possibility of detecting sterile neutrinos in such ordinary nuclear processes. Results are shown and discussed for the effect of heavy neutrino emission in electron capture in Holmium 163 and in two isotopes of Lead, 202 and 205, as well as in the beta decay of Tritium. We study the deexcitation spectrum in the considered cases of electron capture and the charged lepton spectrum in the case of Tritium beta decay. For each of these cases, we define ratios of integrated transition rates over different regions of the spectrum under study and give new results that may guide and facilitate the analysis of possible future measurements, paying particular attention to forbidden transitions in Lead isotopes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-50a1132743de40bea8431957d198cced2025-02-03T06:04:55ZengWileyAdvances in High Energy Physics1687-73571687-73652016-01-01201610.1155/2016/63181026318102Warm Dark Matter Sterile Neutrinos in Electron Capture and Beta Decay SpectraO. Moreno0E. Moya de Guerra1M. Ramón Medrano2Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainDepartamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainDepartamento de Física Teórica I, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainWe briefly review the motivation to search for sterile neutrinos in the keV mass scale, as dark matter candidates, and the prospects to find them in beta decay or electron capture spectra, with a global perspective. We describe the fundamentals of the neutrino flavor-mass eigenstate mismatch that opens the possibility of detecting sterile neutrinos in such ordinary nuclear processes. Results are shown and discussed for the effect of heavy neutrino emission in electron capture in Holmium 163 and in two isotopes of Lead, 202 and 205, as well as in the beta decay of Tritium. We study the deexcitation spectrum in the considered cases of electron capture and the charged lepton spectrum in the case of Tritium beta decay. For each of these cases, we define ratios of integrated transition rates over different regions of the spectrum under study and give new results that may guide and facilitate the analysis of possible future measurements, paying particular attention to forbidden transitions in Lead isotopes.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6318102 |
| spellingShingle | O. Moreno E. Moya de Guerra M. Ramón Medrano Warm Dark Matter Sterile Neutrinos in Electron Capture and Beta Decay Spectra Advances in High Energy Physics |
| title | Warm Dark Matter Sterile Neutrinos in Electron Capture and Beta Decay Spectra |
| title_full | Warm Dark Matter Sterile Neutrinos in Electron Capture and Beta Decay Spectra |
| title_fullStr | Warm Dark Matter Sterile Neutrinos in Electron Capture and Beta Decay Spectra |
| title_full_unstemmed | Warm Dark Matter Sterile Neutrinos in Electron Capture and Beta Decay Spectra |
| title_short | Warm Dark Matter Sterile Neutrinos in Electron Capture and Beta Decay Spectra |
| title_sort | warm dark matter sterile neutrinos in electron capture and beta decay spectra |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6318102 |
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