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SUMMARY:Scanning the Sky for Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Kerstin Perez\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	\nHosted by: Indara Suarez\n\nPart of the HEE Seminar Series.\n\nThe partic
	le nature of dark matter is a driving question of contemporary physics\, wi
	th astrophysical experiments leading the search for dark matter annihilatio
	n or decay signatures. Sterile neutrinos\, which could provide an elegant s
	olution to the puzzle of the observed active neutrino masses and mixing\, a
	re among the most well-motivated light dark matter candidates\, with astrop
	hysical X-ray observations offering the best opportunity for discovery.  In
	 this talk\, I will  review the status of X-ray searches for sterile neutri
	nos\, including the candidate sterile neutrino signal at ~3.5 keV.  In part
	icular\, I will describe the novel use of the NuSTAR X-ray satellite observ
	atory to provide the leading constraints in much of the mass range ~10-50 k
	eV\, improving upon previous limits at some masses by over an order of magn
	itude and reducing the available parameter space for sterile neutrinos in t
	he simplest models by almost two-thirds.
LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Mall\, 02215
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