Sterile neutrinos with pseudoscalar self-interactions and cosmology [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02504


Sterile neutrinos in the electronvolt mass range are hinted at by a number of terrestrial neutrino experiments. However, such neutrinos are highly incompatible with data from the Cosmic Microwave Background and large scale structure. This paper discusses how charging sterile neutrinos under a new pseudoscalar interaction can reconcile eV sterile neutrinos with terrestrial neutrino data. We show that this model can reconcile eV sterile neutrinos in cosmology, providing a fit to all available data which is way better than the standard $\Lambda$CDM model with one additional fully thermalized sterile neutrino. In particular it also prefers a value of the Hubble parameter much closer to the locally measured value.

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M. Archidiacono, S. Hannestad, R. Hansen, et. al.
Wed, 12 Aug 15
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Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, uses REVTeX