A search for sterile neutrinos with the latest cosmological observations

Abstract We report the result of a search for sterile neutrinos with the latest cosmological observations. Both cases of massless and massive sterile neutrinos are considered in the $$\Lambda $$ Λ CDM cosmology. The cosmological observations used in this work include the Planck 2015 temperature and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lu Feng, Jing-Fei Zhang, Xin Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-06-01
Series:European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4986-3