Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-12-01
Phys.Rev. D61 (2000) 105012
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Typo's corrected, accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.105012
We deal with the problem of the final sign of the neutrino asymmetry generated by active-sterile neutrino oscillations in the Early Universe solving the full momentum dependent quantum kinetic equations. We study the parameter region $10^{-2} \stackrel{<}{\sim} |\delta m^2|/eV^2\le 10^3$. For a large range of $\sin^2 2\theta_0$ values the sign of the neutrino asymmetry is fixed and does not oscillate. For values of mixing parameters in the region $10^{-6}\stackrel{<}{\sim}\sin^{2}2\theta_{0}\stackrel{<}{\sim} 3\times 10^{-4} ({\rm eV}^{2}/|\delta m^{2}|)$, the neutrino asymmetry appears to undergo rapid oscillations during the period where the exponential growth occurs. Our numerical results indicate that the oscillations are able to change the neutrino asymmetry sign. The sensitivity of the solutions and in particular of the final sign of lepton number to small changes in the initial conditions depends whether the number of oscillations is high enough. It is however not possible to conclude whether this effect is induced by the presence of a numerical error or is an intrinsic feature. As the amplitude of the statistical fluctuations is much lower than the numerical error, our numerical analysis cannot demonstrate the possibility of a chaotical generation of lepton domains. In any case this possibility is confined to a special region in the space of mixing parameters and it cannot spoil the compatibility of the $\nu_{\mu}\leftrightarrow\nu_{s}$ solution to the neutrino atmospheric data obtained assuming a small mixing of the $\nu_{s}$ with an ${\rm eV}-\tau$ neutrino.
Bari Pasquale Di
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