Paul Frederik Depta

In this work we evaluate whether the gravitational wave background recently observed by a number of different pulsar timing arrays could be due to merging primordial supermassive black hole binaries. We find that for homogeneously distributed primordial black holes this possibility is inconsistent with strong cosmological and astrophysical constraints on their total abundance.

Abstract We propose a novel mechanism to generate sterile neutrinos νs in the early Universe, by converting ordinary neutrinos να in scattering processes νsνα→νsνs. After initial production by oscillations, this leads to an exponential growth in the νs abundance. We show that such a production regime naturally occurs for self-interacting νs, and that this opens up significant new parameter space where νs make up all of the observed dark matter.

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