Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-03-12
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
11 pages, 1 figure; invited talk at the "12th Mexican School on particles and fields" and the "6th Latin American Symposium on
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2751940
Neutrino masses are usually described by adding to the Standard Model some SU(2)-singlet fermions that have the Yukawa couplings, as well as some Majorana mass terms. The number of such fields and the scales of their Majorana masses are not known. Several independent observations point to the possibility that some of these singlets may have masses well below the electroweak scale. A sterile neutrino with mass of a few keV can account for cosmological dark matter. The same particle would be emitted anisotropically from a cooling neutron star born in a supernova explosion. This anisotropy can be large enough to explain the observed velocities of pulsars. A lighter sterile neutrino, with mass of the order of eV, is implied by the LSND results; it can have profound implications for cosmology. We review the physics of sterile neutrinos and the roles they may play in astrophysics and cosmology.
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