Seminars IFIC

The Visible Sterile Neutrino

por Sergio Palomares-Ruiz (Vanderbilt University)

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Dpto. de Física Teórica (UVEG)

Descripción
I present here a scenario, based on a low reheating temperature $ T_R \ll 100$~MeV at the end of (the last episode of) inflation, in which the coupling of sterile neutrinos to active neutrinos can be as large as experimental bounds permit (thus making this neutrino ``visible'' in future experiments). In previous models this coupling was forced to be very small to prevent a cosmological overabundance of sterile neutrinos. Here the abundance depends on how low the reheating temperature is. For example, the sterile neutrino required by the LSND result might not have any cosmological problem within our scenario.