From Springer Nature via Jisc Publications RouterHistory: received 2020-02-22, registration 2020-07-03, accepted 2020-07-03, pub-print 2020-08, pub-electronic 2020-08-19, online 2020-08-19Publication status: PublishedFunder: H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010665; Grant(s): 752309Abstract: We present a quantitative, direct comparison of constraints on sterile neutrinos derived from neutrino oscillation experiments and from Planck data, interpreted assuming standard cosmological evolution. We extend a 1+1 model, which is used to compare exclusion contours at the 95% Cl derived from Planck data to those from νe-disappearance measurements, to a 3+1 model. This allows us to compare the Planck constraints with those obtained through νμ→νe appearance searches, which are sensitive to more than one active-sterile mixing angle. We find that the cosmological data fully exclude the allowed regions published by the LSND, MiniBooNE and Neutrino-4 collaborations, and those from the gallium and rector anomalies, at the 95% Cl. Compared to the exclusion region from the Daya Bay νe-disappearance search, the Planck data are more strongly excluding above |Δm412|≈0.1eV2 and meffsterile≈0.2eV, with the Daya Bay exclusion being stronger below these values. Compared to the combined Daya Bay/Bugey/MINOS exclusion region on νμ→νe appearance, the Planck data is more strongly excluding above Δm412≈5×10-2eV2, with the exclusion strengths of the Planck data and the Daya Bay/Bugey/MINOS combination becoming comparable below this value
