UCLA Dark Matter 2020 Conference

Sterile Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and the Dark Sector

25 Mar 2020, 14:30

30m

PAB- 1-425 (UCLA)

Talk Sterile neutrinos as dark matter Session 3

Speaker

Prof. George Fuller (UC San Diego)

Description

Electroweak singlets, sterile neutrinos, remain viable dark matter candidates. It is tantalizing that much remains mysterious about the physics of the neutrino sector. Luckily, neutrinos impact key issues in cosmology and compact objects, and new physics in this sector therefore may reveal itself. Moreover, the advent of new neutrino experiments, and planned next generation X-ray observatories, promise to close in definitively on the issue of sterile neutrino dark matter.