COSMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON SUPERWEAK PARTICLES

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作者
STEIGMAN, G
OLIVE, KA
SCHRAMM, DN
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[1] STANFORD UNIV,INST PLASMA RES,STANFORD,CA 94305
[2] UNIV CHICAGO,DEPT PHYS,CHICAGO,IL 60637
[3] UNIV CHICAGO,ENRICO FERMI INST,CHICAGO,IL 60637
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.239
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Previous work has used the primordial abundance of He4 to infer limits on the number of neutrinos with full-strength neutral-current weak interactions. By accounting for the quark-gluon constituents of hadrons, we extend the analysis to earlier times and higher temperatures and densities and, therefore, to considerably weaker interactions. The maximum number of new, superweakly interacting, light (a MeV) particles is between ∼1 and ∼20. © 1979 The American Physical Society.
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