How to Find Sterile Neutrinos?
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We describe an extention of the Standard Model (the νMSM) by three light singlet Majorana fermions – sterile neutrinos, which allows to address simultaneously the problem of neutrino oscillations and the problems of dark matter and baryon asymmetry of the Universe. We discuss the ways these new particles can be searched for in astrophysical, laboratory, and accelerator experiments.
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