Unstable massive tau-neutrinos and primordial nucleosynthesis

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1998-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9809598v2

Nucl.Phys.B548:385-407,1999

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

36 pages including 28 figures, minor changes

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00127-3

The impact of unstable Majorana tau neutrinos on primordial nucleosynthesis is considered. The mass and lifetime of nu_tau are taken in the intervals 0.1-20 MeV and 0.001-400 sec respectively. The studied decay modes are nu_tau -> nu_mu + phi and nu_tau -> nu_e + phi, where phi is a massless (or light) scalar. Integro-differential kinetic equations are solved numerically without any simplifying assumptions. Our results deviate rather strongly from earlier calculations. Depending on mass, lifetime, and decay channels of the nu_tau, the number of effective neutrino species (found from He4), in addition to the 3 standard ones, varies from -2 to +2.5. The abundances of H2 and Li7 are also calculated.

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