Cosmology based on f(R) gravity admits 1 eV sterile neutrinos.

نویسندگان

  • Hayato Motohashi
  • Alexei A Starobinsky
  • Jun'ichi Yokoyama
چکیده

It is shown that the tension between recent neutrino oscillation experiments, favoring sterile neutrinos with masses of the order of 1 eV, and cosmological data which impose stringent constraints on neutrino masses from the free streaming suppression of density fluctuations, can be resolved in models of the present accelerated expansion of the Universe based on f(R) gravity.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 110 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013