Phenomenology of light sterile neutrinos: a brief review
Antonio Palazzo
TL;DR
This paper reviews the phenomenology of light sterile neutrinos, discussing experimental anomalies that suggest active neutrinos may convert into sterile species with masses around 1 eV, challenging the standard neutrino model.
Contribution
It provides a concise overview of the current experimental anomalies and the phenomenological interpretation involving light sterile neutrinos.
Findings
Experimental anomalies suggest possible active-sterile neutrino oscillations.
Sterile neutrinos may have masses around 1 eV, affecting neutrino phenomenology.
The review summarizes the status of light sterile neutrino hypotheses.
Abstract
An increasing number of anomalous experimental results are emerging, which cannot be described within the standard 3-neutrino framework. We present a concise discussion of the most popular phenomenological interpretation of such findings, based on a hypothetical flavor conversion phenomenon of the ordinary "active" neutrinos into new light "sterile" species having mass m ~ O(1) eV.
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