Relaxation time of neutrinos in the early universe

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Jan 1989

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 336, Jan. 15, 1989, p. 539-543.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Neutrinos, Relaxation Time, Universe, Nuclear Fusion, Particle Interactions, Relativistic Theory

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The relaxation time of neutrinos and antineutrinos interacting with electrons and positrons in the early universe is calculated using the relativistic version of the two-temperature formalism, and the cross sections predicted by the Weinberg-Salam theory. The results indicate that primordial neutrinos decoupled from the rest of matter at a temperature around 2 x 10 to the 10th K. It is also shown that, as a consequence of this result, the ratio of the radiation temperature to the neutrino temperature becomes 0.2 percent smaller than the standard value (11/4) 1/3 and that the He-4 abundance resulting from primeval nucleosynthesis will differ, also from the standard value, by an amount of -0.000188.

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