PeV Scale Supersymmetric Neutrino Sector: neutrino masses, sterile neutrino dark matter, PeV neutrinos, and a 3.5 keV line

24 Aug 2015, 15:30
20m
Alumni

Alumni

SUSY/String Models SUSY/String Models

Speaker

Bibhushan Shakya (MCTP)

Description

Obtaining light active neutrino masses as well as phenomenologically interesting (keV-GeV) sterile neutrino masses without any unnaturally small parameters hints at a new symmetry in the neutrino sector that is broken at the PeV scale, presumably tied to supersymmetry breaking. This framework can also explain the recently observed PeV energy neutrinos at IceCube and the 3.5 keV X-ray line.

Primary author

Co-authors

James Daniel Wells (University of Michigan (US)) Samuel Roland (University of Michigan)

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