Low-energy sterile neutrinos: Theory

2013 ◽  
Vol 237-238 ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Antonio Palazzo
Keyword(s):  
Low Energy ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos

scholarly journals Constraints on the charged currents in general neutrino interactions with sterile neutrinos

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong Li ◽  
Xiao-Dong Ma ◽  
Michael A. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Neutral Current ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Lepton Number ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Electroweak Scale ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Neutrino Interactions

Abstract In this work we investigate the implication of low-energy precision measurements on the quark-lepton charged currents in general neutrino interactions with sterile neutrinos in effective field theories. The physics in low-energy measurements is described by the low-energy effective field theory extended with sterile neutrinos (LNEFT) defined below the electroweak scale. We also take into account renormalization group running and match the LNEFT onto the Standard Model (SM) effective field theory with sterile neutrinos (SMNEFT) to constrain new physics (NP) above the electroweak scale. The most sensitive low-energy probes are from leptonic decays of pseudoscalar mesons and hadronic tau lepton decays in terms of precise decay branching fractions, the lepton flavor universality and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) unitarity. We also consider other constraints including nuclear beta decay. The constraints on charged current operators are generally stronger than the ones for quark-neutrino neutral current operators. We find that the most stringent bounds on the NP scale of lepton-number-conserving and lepton- number-violating operators in SMNEFT are 74 (110) TeV and 9.8 (13) TeV, respectively, for the operators with down (strange) quark.

scholarly journals Constraining sterile neutrinos with a low energy beta-beam

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjib K. Agarwalla ◽  
Patrick Huber ◽  
Jonathan M. Link
Keyword(s):  
Low Energy ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Beta Beam

scholarly journals Low-energy probes of sterile neutrino transition magnetic moments

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
O. G. Miranda ◽  
D. K. Papoulias ◽  
O. Sanders ◽  
M. Tórtola ◽  
J. W. F. Valle
Keyword(s):  
Electron Scattering ◽  
Sterile Neutrino ◽  
Magnetic Moments ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Parameter Region ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Electron Recoil ◽  
Nucleus Scattering

Abstract Sterile neutrinos with keV-MeV masses and non-zero transition magnetic moments can be probed through low-energy nuclear or electron recoil measurements. Here we determine the sensitivities of current and future searches, showing how they can probe a previously unexplored parameter region. Future coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) or elastic neutrino-electron scattering (EνES) experiments using a monochromatic 51Cr source can fully probe the region indicated by the recent XENON1T excess.

scholarly journals Operator bases in effective field theories with sterile neutrinos: d ≤ 9

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao-Lin Li ◽  
Zhe Ren ◽  
Ming-Lei Xiao ◽  
Jiang-Hao Yu ◽  
Yu-Hui Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Lepton Number ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Mass Dimension ◽  
Physical Effects

Abstract We obtain the complete and independent bases of effective operators at mass dimension 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 in both standard model effective field theory with light sterile right-handed neutrinos (νSMEFT) and low energy effective field theory with light sterile neutrinos (νLEFT). These theories provide systematical parametrizations on all possible Lorentz-invariant physical effects involving in the Majorana/Dirac neutrinos, with/without the lepton number violations. In the νSMEFT, we find that there are 2 (18), 29 (1614), 80 (4206), 323 (20400), 1358 (243944) independent operators with sterile neutrinos included at the dimension 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 for one (three) generation of fermions, while 24, 5223, 3966, 25425, 789426 independent operators in the νLEFT for two generations of up-type quarks and three generations of all other fermions.

scholarly journals Constraining sterile neutrinos with a low energy beta-beam

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla ◽  
Daniel Kaplan ◽  
Maury Goodman ◽  
Zack Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Low Energy ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Beta Beam

scholarly journals Sterile Neutrino Fits to Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Measurements

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Conrad ◽  
C. M. Ignarra ◽  
G. Karagiorgi ◽  
M. H. Shaevitz ◽  
J. Spitz
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Oscillation ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Sterile Neutrino ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
Energy Excess ◽  
Global Fit

This paper reviews short-baseline oscillation experiments as interpreted within the context of one, two, and three sterile neutrino models associated with additional neutrino mass states in the~1 eV range. Appearance and disappearance signals and limits are considered. We show that fitting short-baseline datasets to a 3 + 3 (3 + 2) model, defined by three active and three (two) sterile neutrinos, results in an overall goodness of fit of 67% (69%) and good compatibility between data sets—to be compared to a 3 + 1 model with a 55% goodness of fit. While the (3 + 3) fit yields the highest quality overall, it still finds inconsistencies with the MiniBooNE appearance datasets; in particular, the global fit fails to account for the observed MiniBooNE low-energy excess. Given the overall improvement, we recommend using the results of (3 + 2) and (3 + 3) fits, rather than (3 + 1) fits, for future neutrino oscillation phenomenology. These results motivate the pursuit of further short-baseline experiments, such as those reviewed in this paper.

scholarly journals CPT-VIOLATING NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (08) ◽  
pp. 597-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. ESPOSITO ◽  
G. SALESI
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Phenomenological Model ◽  
Present Model ◽  
Neutrino Oscillations ◽  
Lorentz Violation ◽  
Energy Scale ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Grand Unification ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Lorentz Symmetry Breaking

We propose a simple phenomenological model predicting, through Lorentz symmetry breaking, a CPT-violating asymmetry between particle and antiparticle states in neutrino oscillations involving sterile neutrinos. Such a model is able to explain the apparently observed anomalous excess of low-energy νe-like events, reported by the MiniBooNE collaboration, as well as the non-observation of the corresponding anomalous excess of [Formula: see text]-like events. The present model leads to very specific physical predictions in the neutrino oscillations scenario, and account for the observed anomalies in terms of only one CPT-Lorentz violation parameter of the order of the Grand-Unification energy scale.

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