Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-03-25
Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 013008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 6 figures; minor changes to match PRD version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.013008
We assess a mechanism which can transform neutrino-antineutrino asymmetries between flavors in the early universe, and confirm that such transformation is unavoidable in the near bi-maximal framework emerging for the neutrino mixing matrix. We show that the process is a standard Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein flavor transformation dictated by a synchronization of momentum states. We also show that flavor ``equilibration'' is a special feature of maximal mixing, and carefully examine new constraints placed on neutrino asymmetries. In particular, the big bang nucleosynthesis limit on electron neutrino degeneracy xi_e < 0.04 does not apply directly to all flavors, yet confirmation of the large-mixing-angle solution to the solar neutrino problem will eliminate the possibility of degenerate big bang nucleosynthesis.
Abazajian Kevork N.
Beacom John F.
Bell Nicole F.
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