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The XXX International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2022)

30 May 2022 to 4 June 2022
Virtual Seoul
Asia/Seoul timezone

Massive sterile neutrinos in the early universe: From thermal decoupling to cosmological constraints

Not scheduled
5m
Virtual Seoul

Virtual Seoul

Poster Sterile neutrinos

Speaker

Leonardo Mastrototaro (Università degli Studi di Salerno - INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Gruppo collegato di Salerno)

Description

We consider relatively heavy neutrinos νH, mostly contributing to a sterile state νs, with mass in the range 10 MeV ≲ms≲mπ∼135 MeV, which are thermally produced in the early universe in collisional processes involving active neutrinos, and freezing out after the QCD phase transition. If these neutrinos decay after the active neutrino decoupling, they generate extra neutrino radiation, but also contribute to entropy production. Thus, they alter the value of the effective number of neutrino species Neff as for instance measured by the cosmic microwave background (CMB), as well as affect primordial nucleosynthesis (BBN), notably 4He production. We provide a detailed account of the solution of the relevant Boltzmann equations. We also identify the parameter space allowed by current Planck satellite data and forecast the parameter space probed by future Stage-4 ground-based CMB observations, expected to match or surpass BBN sensitivity.

Primary authors

Leonardo Mastrototaro (Università degli Studi di Salerno - INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Gruppo collegato di Salerno) Prof. Alessandro Mirizzi (Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica Michelangelo) Prof. Pasquale Serpico (Univ. Grenoble Alpes) Prof. Ninetta Saviano (6 INFN - Sezione di Napoli,)

Presentation Materials

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