Low-Energy Supernovae Bounds on Sterile Neutrinos

Abstract

Sterile neutrinos can be produced through mixing with active neutrinos in the hot, dense core of a core-collapse supernova (SN). The standard bounds on the active-sterile mixing (${\sin }^2\theta$) from SN arise from SN1987A energy-loss, requiring $E_{\text{loss}}<10^{52}\mathrm{erg}$. In this work, we discuss a novel bound on sterile neutrino parameter space arising from the energy deposition through its decays inside the SN envelope. Using the observed underluminous SN IIP population, this energy deposition is constrained to be below $\sim 10^{50}\mathrm{erg}$. Focusing on sterile neutrino mixing only with tau neutrino, for heavy sterile masses $m_s$ in the range $100$-$500$ MeV, we find stringent constraints on ${\sin }^2{\theta }_{\tau }$ reaching two orders of magnitude lower than those from the SN1987A energy loss argument, {thereby probing the mixing angles required for Type-I seesaw mechanism}. Similar bounds will also be applicable to sterile mixing only with muons (${\sin }^2{\theta }_{\mu }$).

arXiv comment17 pages, 6 figures, 1 table; updated production modes and extended discussion, matches JCAP published version

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