Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Institut de Théorie des Phénomènes Physiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Jan 24;112(3):031802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.031802. Epub 2014 Jan 22.
Short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments have shown hints of the existence of additional sterile neutrinos in the eV mass range. However, such neutrinos seem incompatible with cosmology because they have too large of an impact on cosmic structure formation. Here we show that new interactions in the sterile neutrino sector can prevent their production in the early Universe and reconcile short baseline oscillation experiments with cosmology.
短基线中微子振荡实验已经在 eV 质量范围内暗示了额外惰性中微子的存在。然而,这样的中微子似乎与宇宙学不兼容,因为它们对宇宙结构形成的影响太大。在这里,我们表明惰性中微子领域的新相互作用可以防止它们在早期宇宙中产生,并使短基线振荡实验与宇宙学相一致。