Naturally light sterile neutrinos in gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking

Gia Dvali, Yosef Nir

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    Abstract

    Moduli are generic in string (M) theory. In a large class of gauge-mediated Supersymmetry breaking models, the fermionic components of such fields have very light masses, around the eV scale, and non-negligible mixing with active neutrinos, of order 10-4. Consequently, these fermions could play the role of sterile neutrinos to which active neutrinos oscillate, thus affecting measurements of solar neutrinos or of atmospheric neutrinos. They could also provide warm dark matter, thus affecting structure formation.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)XXV-10
    JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
    Volume2
    Issue number10
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1998

    Keywords

    • Neutrino Physics
    • Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos
    • Supersymmetric Standard Model

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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