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Carlo Beenakker
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For simplicity, I take equal $\mu_i=\mu$, $\sigma_i^2=\sigma$. (The generalisation to arbitrary $\mu_i,\sigma_i$ is straightforward.)

For large $k$ the variable $Y^2$ has a Gaussian distribution with mean $$M=\mathbb{E}[Y^2]=k[(\mu/\sigma)^2+1]$$ and variance $$V=\mathbb{E}[Y^4]-\mathbb{E}[Y^2]^2=k\bigl[(\mu/\sigma)^4+6(\mu/\sigma)^2+3-(M/k)^2\bigr]=4k[(\mu/\sigma)^2+1/2].$$ It follows that, to leading order in $1/k$, $$\mathbb{E}[Y] =\int_{-\infty}^\infty dz\, (2\pi V)^{-1/2}e^{-z^2/2V}(\sqrt{M}+\tfrac{1}{2}zM^{-1/2}-\tfrac{1}{8}z^2M^{-3/2})=M^{1/2}-\tfrac{1}{8}VM^{-3/2}$$ $$=k^{1/2}\sqrt{(\mu/\sigma)^2+1}+{\cal O}(k^{-1/2}),$$ $$\text{var}\,[Y]=M-\mathbb{E}[Y]^2=\frac{V \left(16 M^2-V\right)}{64 M^3}$$ $$=\frac{(\mu/\sigma)^2+1/2}{(\mu/\sigma)^2+1}+{\cal O}(k^{-1}).$$ So the mean of $Y$ scales as $\sqrt{k}$ while the variance tends to a constant in the limit $k\rightarrow\infty$.

As a check, I plot the mean and variance of $Y$ as a function of $k$ for $\mu=1=\sigma^2$: exact = gold, asymptotic = blue:

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