Standard and non-standard primordial neutrinos
Abstract
The standard cosmological model predicts the existence of a cosmic neutrino background (CνB) with a present density of about n_{\nu}+n_{\vec{\nu}}\simeq 110\;cm^{- 3} per flavour, which affects big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, and the evolution of large scale structures (LSS). We report on a precision calculation of the CνB properties including the modification introduced by neutrino oscillations. The role of a possible neutrino antineutrino asymmetry and the impact of non-standard neutrino electron interactions on the CνB are also briefly discussed.
- Publication:
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Physica Scripta Volume T
- Pub Date:
- October 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0031-8949/2006/T127/032
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0606044
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhST..127...95S
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, no figures. Contribution to the proceedings of SNOW 2006, Stockholm, May 2-6, 2006. Typos corrected, updated references