Sterile neutrinos, lepton asymmetries, primordial elements: how much of each?

Details Sterile neutrinos, lepton asymmetries, primordial elements: how much of each? Sterile neutrinos, lepton asymmetries, primordial elements: how much of each?

2006-08-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608206v2

Phys.Rev.D74:085015,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 2 figures. v2: References and minor comments added. Matches version published on PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.74.085015

We investigate quantitatively the extent to which having a primordial leptonic asymmetry (n_nu \neq n_nubar) relaxes the bounds on light sterile neutrinos imposed by BBN and LSS. We adopt a few assumptions that allow us to solve the neutrino evolution equations over a broad range of mixing parameters and asymmetries. For the general cases of sterile mixing with the electron or muon neutrino, we identify the regions that can be reopened. For the particular case of a LSND-like sterile neutrino, soon to be rejected or confirmed by MiniBooNE, we find that an asymmetry of the order of 10^-4 is needed to lift the conflicts with cosmology.

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