Research Article

Heavy Sterile Neutrino in Dark Matter Searches

Table 2

Nuclides relevant for the search of the keV sterile neutrinos in the electron capture process. We give the life time , the -value, the electron binding energy for various captures, and the value of . For details see [66].

Nuclide EC transition (keV) (keV) (keV) (keV)

71 y 60.04 K: 50.2391 LI: 8.3756 9.76
4570 y 2.555 MI: 2.0468 NI: 0.4163 0.51
1.82 y 105.6 K: 65.3508 LI: 11.2707 40.2
50 y 56.63 LI: 13.4185 MI: 3.1737 43.2
52 ky 46 LI: 15.3467 MI: 3.7041 30.7
13 My 50.6 LI: 15.3467 MI: 3.7041 35.3
396 d 124.2 K: 115.6061 LI: 21.75748.6