A combined view of sterile-neutrino constraints from CMB and neutrino oscillation measurements

作者:Bridle Sarah; Elvin Poole Jack*; Evans Justin; Fernandez Susana; Guzowski Pawel; Soldner Rembold Stefan
来源:Physics Letters B, 2017, 764: 322-327.
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.11.050

摘要

We perform a comparative analysis of constraints on sterile neutrinos from the Planck experiment and from current and future neutrino oscillation experiments (MINOS, IceCube, SBN). For the first time, we express joint constraints on N-eff and m(eff)(sterile) from the CMB in the Delta m(2), sin(2)2 theta parameter space used by oscillation experiments. We also show constraints from oscillation experiments in the N-eff, m(eff)(sterile) cosmology parameter space. In a model with a single sterile neutrino species and using standard assumptions, we find that the Planck 2015 data and the oscillation experiments measuring muon-neutrino (nu(mu)) disappearance have similar sensitivity.

  • 出版日期2017-1-10