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Cosmology Based on f(R) Gravity Admits 1 eV Sterile Neutrinos

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2013-03-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It is shown that the tension between recent neutrino oscillation experiments, favoring sterile neutrinos with masses of the order of 1 eV, and cosmological data which impose stringent constraints on neutrino masses from the free streaming suppression of density fluctuations, can be resolved in models of the present accelerated expansion of the Universe based on f(R) gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1203.6828,
  title  = {Cosmology Based on f(R) Gravity Admits 1 eV Sterile Neutrinos},
  author = {Hayato Motohashi and Alexei A. Starobinsky and Jun'ichi Yokoyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.6828},
  year   = {2013}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures, matches the published version in Phys. Rev. Lett