TY  - JOUR
AU  - Giusarma, E.
AU  - Archidiacono, M.
AU  - de Putter, R.
AU  - Melchiorri, A.
AU  - Mena, O.
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - Sterile neutrino models and nonminimal cosmologies
T2  - Phys. Rev. D
JO  - Physical Review D
SP  - 083522
EP  - 9pp
VL  - 85
IS  - 8
PB  - Amer Physical Soc
AB  - Cosmological measurements are affected by the energy density of massive neutrinos. We extend here a recent analysis of current cosmological data to nonminimal cosmologies. Several possible scenarios are examined: a constant w not equal -1 dark energy equation of state, a nonflat universe, a time-varying dark energy component and coupled dark matter-dark energy universes or modified gravity scenarios. When considering cosmological data only, (3 + 2) massive neutrino models with similar to 0.5 eV sterile species are allowed at 95% confidence level. This scenario has been shown to reconcile reactor, LSND and MiniBooNE positive signals with null results from other searches. Big bang nucleosynthesis bounds could compromise the viability of (3 + 2) models if the two sterile species are fully thermalized states at decoupling.
SN  - 1550-7998
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1112.4661
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.083522
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.083522
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000303118100002
ID  - Giusarma_etal2012
ER  -