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Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111801 (2005) [4 pages]

Late Time Neutrino Masses, the LSND Experiment, and the Cosmic Microwave Background

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Z. Chacko1, Lawrence J. Hall1, Steven J. Oliver1, and Maxim Perelstein2
1Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
2Institute for High-Energy Phenomenology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA

Received 2 June 2004; published 23 March 2005

Models with low-scale breaking of global symmetries in the neutrino sector provide an alternative to the seesaw mechanism for understanding why neutrinos are light. Such models can easily incorporate light sterile neutrinos required by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector experiment. Furthermore, the constraints on the sterile neutrino properties from nucleosynthesis and large-scale structure can be removed due to the nonconventional cosmological evolution of neutrino masses and densities. We present explicit, fully realistic supersymmetric models, and discuss the characteristic signatures predicted in the angular distributions of the cosmic microwave background.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.111801
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.111801
PACS:
14.60.Pq, 12.60.Jv, 98.70.Vc, 98.80.Cq