Effects of non-standard neutrino-electron interactions in relic neutrino decoupling

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Neutrino Mass And Mixing, Neutrino Interactions, Observational Cosmology, Origin, Formation, And Abundances Of The Elements

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We consider the decoupling of neutrinos in the early Universe in presence of non-standard neutral current neutrino-electron interactions (NSI). We present the results of fully numerical and momentum-dependent calculations, including flavor neutrino oscillations. We find that the presence of neutrino-electron NSI may enhance the entropy transfer from electron-positron pairs into neutrinos instead of photons, up to a value of the effective number of neutrinos Neff~=3.12 for NSI parameters within the ranges allowed by present laboratory data, which is almost three times the effect that appears for standard weak interactions. Thus non-standard neutrino-electron interactions do not essentially modify the density of relic neutrinos nor the bounds on neutrino properties from cosmological observables, such as their mass.

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