Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper
By K. Abazajian, M. Acero, S. Agarwalla, A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. Albright, S. Antusch, C. Arguelles, A. Balantekin, G. Barenboim, V. Barger and 177 more. 2012
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This white paper addresses the hypothesis of light sterile neutrinos based on recent anomalies observed in neutrino experiments and the latest astrophysical data.
Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Dark Matter, Baryogenesis and Neutrino Oscillations from Right Handed Neutrinos (2012, background): “ss a possible origin of the mass spectrum and flavor structure in the SM and νMSM, which to date is purely speculative. Some ideas on the origin of a low seesaw scale can be found in [60–71], see also [72]. Some speculations on the small mass splitting have been made in [6, 10, 44, 73]. A similar spe”
- Current unknowns in the three-neutrino framework (2018, background): “The situation is somewhat different concerning new neutrino states, since there are long-standing anomalies that seem to point towards a 4th massive (so-called sterile) state at the O(1) eV scale, slightly mixed with both νe and νμ; see [59, 221] for reviews.”
- The Phenomenology of Right Handed Neutrinos (2013, methodology): “isappearance, which is controlled by other parameters than νµ disappearance. Hence, the situation remains puzzling. A detailed list of various proposals for future experiments [95–98] can be found in [27]. 3.2 Lepton flavour violation The most studied consequence of the lepton number violation due to”
- A Proposal for a Three Detector Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam (2015, background): “However, in recent years, several experimental “anomalies” have been reported which, if experimentally confirmed, could be hinting at the presence of additional neutrino states with larger mass-squared differences participating in the mixing [15].”
- Where are we with light sterile neutrinos? (2019, unknown): “[26] for a complete discussion.”
- Colloquium : Majorana fermions in nuclear, particle, and solid-state physics (2014, methodology): “A detailed summary of these searches, in addition to an overview of the theory, is given by Abazajian et al. (Abazajian et al., 2012).”
- Solar Neutrinos: Status and Prospects (2012, background): “The discrepancy, which exceeds two standard deviations, has attracted some attention due to other short-baseline neutrino anomalies (Abazajian et al. 2012, Gavrin et al. 2011).”