Combining Experimental and Cosmological Constraints on Heavy Neutrinos

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We study experimental and cosmological constraints on the extension of the Standard Model by three right handed neutrinos with masses between those of the pion and W boson.

• We combine for the first time direct, indirect and cosmological constraints in this mass range.
• This includes experimental constraints from neutrino oscillation data, neutrinoless double $\beta$ decay, electroweak precision data, lepton universality, searches for rare lepton decays, tests of CKM unitarity and past direct searches at colliders or fixed target experiments.
• On the cosmological side, big bang nucleosynthesis has the most pronounced impact.