Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-08-16
Mod.Phys.Lett.A20:2607-2618,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to Modern Physics Letters A
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217732305018827
We investigate the interaction between the cosmological relic neutrinos, and primordial gravitational waves entering the horizon before the electroweak phase transition, corresponding to observable frequencies today nu_0 <= 10^-5 Hz. We give an analytic formula for the traceless transverse part of the anisotropic stress tensor, due to weakly interacting neutrinos, and derive an integro-differential equation describing the propagation of cosmological gravitational waves at these conditions. We find that this leads to a decrease of the wave intensity in the frequency region accessible to the LISA space interferometer, that is at the present the most promising way to obtain a direct detection of a cosmological gravitational wave. The absorbed intensity does not depend neither on the perturbation wavelength, nor on the details of neutrino interactions, and is affected only by the neutrino fraction f_nu. The transmitted intensity amounts to 88% for the standard value f_nu=0.40523. An approximate formula for non-standard values of f_nu is given.
Lattanzi Massimiliano
Montani Giovanni
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