Light sterile neutrinos: models and phenomenology

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2011)091zbMATH Open1298.81416arXiv1105.3911MaRDI QIDQ467239FDOQ467239

Authors: James Barry, Werner Rodejohann, He Zhang 

Publication date: 3 November 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by recent hints in particle physics and cosmology, we study the realization of eV-scale sterile neutrinos within both the seesaw mechanism and flavor symmetry theories. We show that light sterile neutrinos can rather easily be accommodated in the popular A_4 flavor symmetry models. The exact tri-bimaximal mixing pattern is perturbed due to active-sterile mixing, which we discuss in detail for one example. In addition, we find an interesting extension of the type I seesaw, which can provide a natural origin for eV-scale sterile neutrinos as well as visible admixtures between sterile and active neutrinos. We also show that the presence of sterile neutrinos would significantly change the observables in neutrino experiments, specifically the oscillation probabilities in short-baseline experiments and the effective mass in neutrino-less double beta decay. The latter can prove particularly helpful to strengthen the case for eV-scale sterile neutrinos.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3911

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zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelneutrino physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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