
TL;DR
This review explores the theoretical motivations, experimental evidence, and phenomenological implications of sterile neutrinos across various mass scales, highlighting current tensions and potential roles in cosmology and particle physics.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of sterile neutrino models, discusses recent experimental anomalies, and examines non-minimal scenarios to resolve existing tensions.
Findings
Identification of anomalies in neutrino oscillation data
Severe tensions between different experimental datasets
Potential roles of sterile neutrinos in dark matter and leptogenesis
Abstract
Neutrinos, being the only fermions in the Standard Model of Particle Physics that do not possess electromagnetic or color charges, have the unique opportunity to communicate with fermions outside the Standard Model through mass mixing. Such Standard Model-singlet fermions are generally referred to as "sterile neutrinos''. In this review article, we discuss the theoretical and experimental motivation for sterile neutrinos, as well as their phenomenological consequences. With the benefit of hindsight in 2020, we point out potentially viable and interesting ideas. We focus in particular on sterile neutrinos that are light enough to participate in neutrino oscillations, but we also comment on the benefits of introducing heavier sterile states. We discuss the phenomenology of eV-scale sterile neutrinos in terrestrial experiments and in cosmology, we survey the global data, and we highlight…
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