Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-09-10
Int.J.Mod.Phys. D13 (2004) 831-842
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
13 pages, 2 figures, a revised shortened version, main results unchanged, references updated, typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0218271804004906
We study the distortion of electron neutrino energy spectrum due to oscillations with the sterile neutrino nu_e <-> nu_s, for different initial populations of the sterile state delta N_s at the onset of oscillations. The influence of this spectrum distortion on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis is analyzed. Only the case of an initially empty sterile state was studied in previous publications. The primordial abundance of He-4 is calculated for all possible delta N_s: 0<= delta N_s<= 1 in the model of oscillations, effective after electron neutrino decoupling, for which the spectrum distortion effects on the neutron--proton transitions are the strongest. It is found that the spectrum distortion effect may be the dominant one not only in the case of small delta N_s, but also in the case of big initial population of nu_s. For example, in the resonant case it may play a considerable role even for very big delta N_s ~ 0.8.
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