Testing the Number of Neutrino Species with a Global Fit of Neutrino Data
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| author | Ettengruber, Manuel Zander, Alan Eller, Philipp |
| author_facet | Ettengruber, Manuel Zander, Alan Eller, Philipp |
| contents | We present the first experimental constraints on models with many additional neutrino species in an analysis of current neutrino data. These types of models are motivated as a solution to the hierarchy problem by lowering the species scale of gravity to TeV. Additionally, they offer a natural mechanism to generate small neutrino masses and provide interesting dark matter candidates. This study analyzes data from DayaBay, KamLAND, MINOS, NOvA and KATRIN. We do not find evidence for the presence of any additional neutrino species, therefore we report lower bounds on the allowed number of neutrino species realized in nature. For the normal/inverted neutrino mass ordering, we can give a lower bound on the number of neutrino species of O(30) and O(100), respectively, over a large range of the parameter space. |
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| spellingShingle | Testing the Number of Neutrino Species with a Global Fit of Neutrino Data Ettengruber, Manuel Zander, Alan Eller, Philipp High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory We present the first experimental constraints on models with many additional neutrino species in an analysis of current neutrino data. These types of models are motivated as a solution to the hierarchy problem by lowering the species scale of gravity to TeV. Additionally, they offer a natural mechanism to generate small neutrino masses and provide interesting dark matter candidates. This study analyzes data from DayaBay, KamLAND, MINOS, NOvA and KATRIN. We do not find evidence for the presence of any additional neutrino species, therefore we report lower bounds on the allowed number of neutrino species realized in nature. For the normal/inverted neutrino mass ordering, we can give a lower bound on the number of neutrino species of O(30) and O(100), respectively, over a large range of the parameter space. |
| title | Testing the Number of Neutrino Species with a Global Fit of Neutrino Data |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00490 |