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We discuss a model where a mixed warm and hot keV neutrino dark matter rises naturally. We arrange active and sterile neutrinos in the same SU(3)L multiplet, with the lightest sterile neutrino being dark matter. The other two heavy sterile neutrinos, through their out-of-equilibrium decay, contribute both to the dilution of dark matter density and its population, after freeze-out. We show that this model features all ingredients to overcome the overproduction of keV neutrino dark matter, and explore the phenomenological implications for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the number of relativistic degrees of freedom.
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Dutra, M., Oliveira, V., de S. Pires, C.A. et al. A model for mixed warm and hot right-handed neutrino dark matter. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 5 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2021)005
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