Published April 26, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Non-equilibrium Neutrino in the Early Universe Plasma

Creators

  • 1. Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Tsarigradsko Shosse 72, BG-1784 Sofia (Bulgaria)

Description

We discuss the evolution of cosmic neutrinos, participating in neutrino oscillations and interacting with the fermions of the hot plasma during pre-BBN and BBN epoch. The neutrino evolution and the neutrino oscillations effects depend on the type of oscillations: oscillation channels, the degree of equilibrium of oscillating neutrinos and on the plasma characteristics. Neutrino spectrum distortion by neutrino oscillations in medium is discussed in detail. Non-equilibrium decays and their effect on electron neutrino spectrum distortion and nucleons kinetics during pre-BBN epoch are briefly discussed. BBN model with such decays and active-inert neutrino oscillations may resolve the tension between BBN and LSS preferred numbers of neutrino types. Cosmological constraints on neutrino characteristics are presented.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1121
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 83-89
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
School of space plasma physics
Dates
31 Aug - 7 Sep 2008
Place
Sozopol (Bulgaria)

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Notes
(c) 2009 American Institute of Physics