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Can the excess in the FeXXVI Ly gamma line from the Galactic Center provide evidence for 17 keV sterile neutrinos?

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arxiv 1001.0215 v1 pith:A6D6NEA7 submitted 2010-01-01 astro-ph.HE

Can the excess in the FeXXVI Ly gamma line from the Galactic Center provide evidence for 17 keV sterile neutrinos?

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keywords neutrinossterileangleexcesslinemassmixingcenter
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The standard model of particle physics assumes that neutrinos are massless, although adding non-zeros is required by the experimentally established phenomenon of neutrino oscillations requires neutrinos to have non-zero mass. Sterile neutrinos (or right-handed neutrinos) are a good warm dark matter candidate. We find that the excess of the intensity in the 8.7 keV line (at the energy of the FeXXVI Ly$\gamma$ line) in the spectrum of the Galactic center observed by the Suzaku X-ray mission cannot be explained by standard ionization and recombination processes. We suggest that the origin of this excess is via decays of sterile neutrinos with a mass of 17.4 keV and estimate the value of the mixing angle. The estimated value of the mixing angle $\sin^2(2\theta)=(4.1 \pm 2.2)\times10^{-12}$ lies in the allowed region of the mixing angle of dark matter sterile neutrino with a mass of 17-18 keV.

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