EFFECT OF NEUTRINO HEATING ON PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS

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作者
FIELDS, BD
DODELSON, S
TURNER, MS
机构
[1] FERMILAB NATL ACCELERATOR LAB,NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYS CTR,BATAVIA,IL 60510
[2] UNIV CHICAGO,ENRICO FERMI INST,DEPT ASTRON & ASTROPHYS,CHICAGO,IL 60637
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1993年 / 47卷 / 10期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.47.4309
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P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We modify the standard code for primordial nucleosynthesis to include the effect of the slight heating of neutrinos by e+/- annihilations. There is a small, systematic change in the He-4 yield, DELTAY congruent-to +1.5X10(-4), which is insensitive to the value of the baryon-to-photon ratio eta for 10(-10) less than or similar to eta less than or similar to 10(-9). We also find that the baryon-to-photon ratio decreases by about 0.5% less than the canonical factor of 4/11 because some of the entropy in e+/- pairs is transferred to neutrinos. These results are in accord with recent analytical estimates.
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页码:4309 / 4314
页数:6
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