Light Sterile Neutrinos: Status and Perspectives

Abstract

The indications in favor of the existence of light sterile neutrinos at the eV scale found in short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments is reviewed. The future perspectives of short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments and the connections with beta-decay measurements of the neutrino masses and with neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments are discussed.

12 pages; invited contribution to the Nuclear Physics B Special Issue on Neutrino Oscillations celebrating the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015

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