While three flavors of ``active'' neutrinos are consistent with mixing angle results within error bars, there are anomalies may be hints of physics beyond the standard model that can accommodate a fourth mostly ``sterile" neutrino species with an eV-scale mass and a mixing angle with active neutrinos of order θ0≃0.1. We describe a scenario with
eV-scale sterile neutrinos that have self-interactions via a new gauge vector boson, a ``secret'' mediator ϕ. We show that their production in the early Universe via mixing with active neutrinos is consistent with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and free-streaming constraints in the Cosmic Microwave Background epoch. For Mϕ=4−8 keV and sterile neutrino coupling gs=10−4, we find that resonant interactions of diffuse supernova neutrinos with relic sterile neutrinos in transit to the Earth would cause spectral dips in the neutrino flux. We illustrate the corresponding (anti-)neutrino event distributions as a function of energy in the DUNE (Hyper-Kamiokande) detector.
