CIPANP 2018 - Thirteenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics

Sterile Neutrinos in the Early Universe

1 Jun 2018, 16:10

25m

South Foyer | Nopales Room (Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center)

Parallel TSEI NMNM / TSEI

Speaker

Prof. George Fuller (University of California, San Diego)

Description

I will give an overview of sterile neutrino physics in the early universe and in cosmology, especially as regards dark matter. This will include a discussion of production mechanisms, relic densities, the relationship of these to lepton and baryon numbers, and associated high energy scale physics issues. I will also discuss the status of X-ray observational constraints on sterile neutrino and other light dark matter, dark matter candidates.