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Constraints on massive sterile neutrino species from current and future cosmological data

Elena Giusarma1, Martina Corsi2, Maria Archidiacono2, Roland de Putter1, Alessandro Melchiorri2, Olga Mena1, and Stefania Pandolfi3

  • 1IFIC, Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, 46071, Valencia, Spain
  • 2Physics Department and INFN, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
  • 3Physics Department and ICRA, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy

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Phys. Rev. D 83, 115023 – Published 24 June, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.115023

Abstract

Sterile massive neutrinos are a natural extension of the standard model of elementary particles. The energy density of the extra sterile massive states affects cosmological measurements in an analogous way to that of active neutrino species. We perform here an analysis of current cosmological data and derive bounds on the masses of the active and the sterile neutrino states, as well as on the number of sterile states. The so-called (3+2) models, with three sub-eV active massive neutrinos plus two sub-eV massive sterile species, is well within the 95% CL allowed regions when considering cosmological data only. If the two extra sterile states have thermal abundances at decoupling, big bang nucleosynthesis bounds compromise the viability of (3+2) models. Forecasts from future cosmological data on the active and sterile neutrino parameters are also presented. Independent measurements of the neutrino mass from tritium beta-decay experiments and of the Hubble constant could shed light on sub-eV massive sterile neutrino scenarios.

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Phys. Rev. D 83, 115023– Published 24 June, 2011
  • Received 14 April 2011

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