Large neutrino asymmetries from neutrino oscillations

被引:170
作者
Foot, R
Thomson, MJ
Volkas, RR
机构
[1] Research Centre for High Energy Physics, School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville
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10.1103/PhysRevD.53.R5349
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We reexamine neutrino oscillations in the early universe. Contrary to previous studies, we show that large neutrino asymmetries can arise due to oscillations between ordinary neutrinos and sterile neutrinos. This means that the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) bounds on the mass and mixing of ordinary neutrinos with sterile neutrinos can be evaded. Also, it is possible that the neutrino asymmetries dan be large enough (greater than or similar to 10%) to have a significant effect on BBN through nuclear reaction rates.
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页码:R5349 / R5353
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