Blocking Active-Sterile Neutrino Oscillations in the Early Universe with a Majoron Field

Details Blocking Active-Sterile Neutrino Oscillations in the Early Universe with a Majoron Field Blocking Active-Sterile Neutrino Oscillations in the Early Universe with a Majoron Field

2001-08-07

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0108064v3

Phys.Rev. D64 (2001) 115015

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

15 pages, revtex; v3 to match PRD paper

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.64.115015

We propose a new mechanism to block the active-sterile neutrino oscillations in the Early Universe. We show that a typical consequence of theories where the lepton number is spontaneously broken is the existence of a coherent cosmological Majoron field with a strength proportional to the lepton and baryon numbers of the Universe. This field interacts with leptons and changes the potentials relevant for neutrino oscillations. If the scale of lepton number symmetry breaking is of the order of 1 GeV then a Majoron field and lepton number asymmetry of the order of the baryon asymmetry are strong enough to block the active-sterile neutrino oscillations with the atmospheric neutrino mass gap which otherwise would bring the sterile neutrino into equilibrium at the big bang nucleosynthesis epoch.

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