Heavy sterile neutrinos: Bounds from big-bang nucleosynthesis and SN 1987A
By A. Dolgov, S. Hansen, G. Raffelt, D. V. Semikoz. 2000
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Cosmological and astrophysical effects of heavy (10–200 MeV) sterile Dirac neutrinos, mixed with the active ones, are considered. The bounds on mass and mixing angle from both supernovae and big-bang nucleosynthesis are presented.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to Heavy Neutral Leptons (2018, background): “The primordial nucleosynthesis bounds on HNL lifetime are from [76].”
- What can be learned from a future supernova neutrino detection (2017, methodology): “The neutrino signal from SN 1987A has also been frequently used to derive limits on various neutrino properties such as their mass, charge, magnetic moment, lifetime, mixing with heavy sterile neutrinos [24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30], and much more.”
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