Light sterile neutrinos: the current picture from neutrino oscillations

S. Gariazzo
To appear in the Proceedings of TAUP 2019, Toyama, Japan, 9-13 September, 2019.
arXiv:1911.03463 [astro-ph.CO].

Abstract:
Light sterile neutrinos with a mass around 1 eV have been studied for many years as a possible explanation of the so called short-baseline neutrino oscillation anomalies. Recently, several neutrino oscillation experiments reported preferences for non-zero values of the mixing angles and squared mass differences for active-sterile mixing, which however are not always in agreement. I will review our current knowledge on the light sterile neutrino in the 3+1 model, starting with a separate discussion on the status of the most relevant searches and then analyzing the problems that arise when combining different probes in a global fit.