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Sterile neutrinos can influence the evolution of the universe, and thus cosmological observations can be used to search for sterile neutrinos. In this study, we utilized the latest baryon acoustic oscillations data from DESI, combined with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Lu Feng , Tian-Nuo Li , Guo-Hong Du , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We determine constraints on parameters of a single eV-scale light neutrino using IceCube-59 data. Particular emphasis is put on the question whether such an analysis can rule out sterile neutrino hints. While important complementary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Manfred Lindner , Werner Rodejohann , Xun-Jie Xu

A new method to study the effects of neutrino masses on a supernova neutrino signal is proposed. The method relies exclusively on the analysis of the full statistics of neutrino events, it is independent of astrophysical assumptions, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Enrico Nardi , Jorge I. Zuluaga

Cosmology cannot rule out the solution nu_mu <-> nu_s to the atmospheric neutrino data and thus only Earth experiments will be able to give a definitive answer. This conclusion holds when a generation of lepton number is taken into account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 P. Di Bari

Low-scale models of neutrino mass generation often feature sterile neutrinos with masses in the GeV-TeV range, which can be produced at colliders through their mixing with the Standard Model neutrinos. We consider an alternative scenario in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Stéphane Lavignac , Anibal D. Medina

There are $\sim3\sigma$ or more evidence of eV-scale sterile neutrinos from several different measurements. Many dedicated experiments are (being) created and (will) take data to confirm or refute the eV-scale sterile neutrinos. In this…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-27 Seon-Hee Seo

Neutrino masses and light (keV-GeV) sterile neutrinos can arise naturally via a modified, low energy seesaw mechanism if the right-handed neutrinos are charged under a new symmetry broken by a PeV scale vacuum expectation value, presumably…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-30 Bibhushan Shakya , Samuel B. Roland , James D. Wells

Sterile neutrinos at the GeV scale can resolve several outstanding problems of the Standard Model (SM), such as the source of neutrino masses and the origin of the baryon asymmetry through freeze-in leptogenesis, but they can be challenging…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-01 Ina Flood , Rafael Porto , Jane Schlesinger , Brian Shuve , Maxwell Thum

We explore the energy and entropy transport as well as the lepton number variation induced from the mixing between electron and sterile neutrinos with keV mass in the supernova core. We develop a radial- and time-dependent treatment of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-19 Anna M. Suliga , Irene Tamborra , Meng-Ru Wu

The origin of neutrino masses remains unknown to date. One popular idea involves interactions between neutrinos and ultralight dark matter, described as fields or particles with masses $m_\phi \ll 10\,\mathrm{eV}$. Due to the large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Andrew Cheek , Luca Visinelli , Hong-Yi Zhang

Sterile neutrinos with various masses could be participated in astrophysical and cosmological processes including mixing with active neutrinos, if exist. It is considered the possible effects of mixing of active and sterile neutrinos with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-16 V. V. Khruschov , S. V. Fomichev

A sterile neutrino with mass of several keV is a well-motivated dark-matter candidate, and it can also explain the observed velocities of pulsars via anisotropic emission of sterile neutrinos from a cooling neutron star. We discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-03 Shin'ichiro Ando , Alexander Kusenko

Feebly interacting particles with masses with O(10-100) MeV can be copiously produced by core-collapse supernovae (SNe). In this paper we consider the case of MeV-ish sterile neutrinos and dark photons mixed with ordinary neutrinos and…

We explore the possibility of light and superlight sterile neutrinos in the recently proposed Minimal Radiative Inverse Seesaw extension of the Standard Model for neutrino masses, in which all existing neutrino data can be explained. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-01 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Apostolos Pilaftsis

We study the impact of TeV-scale sterile neutrinos on electro-weak precision observables and lepton number and flavour violating decays in the framework of a type-I see-saw extension of the Standard Model. At tree level sterile neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-20 Evgeny Akhmedov , Alexander Kartavtsev , Manfred Lindner , Lisa Michaels , Juri Smirnov

A sterile neutrino is a well motivated minimal new physics model that leaves an imprint in neutrino oscillations. Over the last two decades, a number of hints pointing to a sterile neutrino have emerged, many of which are pointing near…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-03 Peter B. Denton

The existence of light sterile neutrinos, as predicted in several models, can help to explain a number of observations starting from dark mater to recent anomalies in short baseline experiments. In this paper we consider two models -…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-16 Tapoja Jha , Sarif Khan , Manimala Mitra , Ayon Patra

The question of how heavy a sterile neutrino can be probed in experiments leads us to investigate the Primakoff production of heavy sterile neutrinos up to PeV masses from ultrahigh-energy neutrinos via the magnetic dipole portal. Despite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Guo-yuan Huang , Sudip Jana , Manfred Lindner , Werner Rodejohann

We investigate the physics potential of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in probing active-sterile mixing. We present analytic expressions for relevant oscillation probabilities for three active and one sterile…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-10 Sabila Parveen , Mehedi Masud , Mary Bishai , Poonam Mehta

We perform a detailed study of the weak interactions of standard model neutrinos with the primordial plasma and their effect on the resonant production of sterile neutrino dark matter. Motivated by issues in cosmological structure formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Tejaswi Venumadhav , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Kevork N. Abazajian , Christopher M. Hirata