Light sterile neutrinos effects in processes with electron and muon neutrinos

Abstract

Sterile neutrinos with various masses could be participated in astrophysical and cosmological processes including mixing with active neutrinos, if exist. It is considered the possible effects of mixing of active and sterile neutrinos with masses of the order or less than 1 eV. For oscillation processes involving electron and muon neutrinos, as well as for beta decay and neutrinoless double beta decay processes, the contributions of light sterile neutrinos in the characteristics of these processes are calculated. For this purpose the estimates of the mixing parameters in the model with three active and three sterile neutrinos are made taking into account experimental data. Two cases of sterile neutrinos masses distribution are considered in detail. The results obtained can be used for interpretation of available experimental data, and also for predictions of subsequent experimental results.