Relic Right-handed Dirac Neutrinos and Cosmic Neutrino Background

Abstract

The PTOLEMY experiment, implementing a $100~{\rm g}$ surface-deposition tritium target, is promising to detect cosmic neutrino background via $ν^{}_e + {^3}{\rm H} \to {^3}{\rm He} + e^-$. In this talk, I consider a thermal production of right-handed Dirac neutrinos in the early Universe, and investigate their impact on the capture rate of cosmic relic neutrinos at PTOLEMY.

4 pages, 1 figure, proceedings of the Neutrino Oscillation Workshop, Otranto (Lecce), September 4-11, 2016