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Light sterile neutrinos: a critical overview
by Ivan Esteban
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Ivan Esteban |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_201810_00001v3 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2019-01-07 |
| Date submitted: | 2018-11-29 01:00 |
| Submitted by: | Esteban, Ivan |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | The 15th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU2018) |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Experimental, Theoretical |
Abstract
Light sterile neutrinos, first proposed after the results of the LSND experiment, have been a polemical topic for the last decades after seemingly contradictory data appeared from different experiments. In this overview, I review the experimental hints that point towards sterile neutrinos as well as their statistical compatibility. Even though the muon neutrino disappearance experiments strongly rule out vanilla sterile neutrinos, each oscillation channel remains internally mostly consistent. In any case, in the near future a series of independent and precise experiments should finally settle down this issue.
Published as SciPost Phys. Proc. 1, 026 (2019)