Gravitational production of sterile neutrinos

Abstract We consider gravitational production of singlet fermions such as sterile neutrinos during and after inflation. The production efficiency due to classical gravity is suppressed by the fermion mass. Quantum gravitational effects, on the other hand, are expected to break conformal invariance o...

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Main Authors: Fotis Koutroulis, Oleg Lebedev, Stefan Pokorski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2024-04-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2024)027