Speaker
Garv Chauhan
(Virginia Tech)
Description
Sterile neutrinos can be produced through mixing with active neutrinos in the hot and dense core of a collapsing supernova (SN). The standard SN bounds on the active-sterile mixing ($\theta$) arise from the SN1987A energy-loss argument. In this talk, I will discuss a novel and stringent bound on $\theta$ arising from the energy deposition through the decays of sterile neutrinos inside the SN envelope.
Primary authors
Garv Chauhan
(Virginia Tech)
Ian Shoemaker
(Virginia Tech)
Patrick Huber
Shunsaku Horiuchi
(Virginia Tech)
