22 June 2020 to 2 July 2020
US/Central timezone

Observational Constraints on the possibility that Sterile Neutrinos cause Anti-gravity

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10m

Speaker

Priyamvada Kameshwar (Dept. of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi)

Description

The origin of neutrino masses heralds new physics. In some theories beyond the standard model, existence of sterile neutrinos have been predicted. In this paper, we ask the question: what if sterile neutrinos cause the space-time geometry to be warped in a way that it leads to repulsive gravity? We use a Lambda-CDM model along with a negative gravitational constant for the sterile neutrinos to constrain the extent of anti-gravity sourced by these neutrinos.

Mini-abstract

Constraint on anti-gravity sourced by massive sterile neutrinos using Type Ia supernova data

Primary author

Priyamvada Kameshwar (Dept. of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi)

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