Laboratory Limits on Theories with Sterile Neutrinos in the Bulk

Abstract

We discuss the phenomenological consequences of theories which describe sterile neutrinos in large extra dimensions, in the so-called bulk. We briefly outline how the cumulative non-decoupling effect due to the tower of Kaluza-Klein singlet neutrinos may equivalently be described by a higher-dimensional effective theory with original order-unity Yukawa couplings. Based on this cumulative phenomenon, we obtain strong constraints on the fundamental quantum gravity scale and/or on the higher-dimensional Yukawa couplings.

4 pages, to appear in Proc. of the DPF2000 (August 9-12, 2000), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA