Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Cosmological Constraints on Neutrino Oscillation Parameters
| dc.creator | Kirilova, Daniela | |
| dc.creator | Chizhov, Mihail | |
| dc.date | 2001-08-21 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:31:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:31:56Z | |
| dc.description | We present a review of cosmological nucleosynthesis (CN) with neutrino oscillations, discussing the different effects of oscillations on CN, namely: increase of the effective degrees of freedom during CN, spectrum distortion of the oscillating neutrinos, neutrino number density depletion, and growth of neutrino-antineutrino asymmetry due to active-sterile oscillations. We discuss the importance of these effects for the primordial yield of helium-4. Primordially produced He-4 value is obtained in a selfconsistent study of the nucleons and the oscillating neutrinos. The effects of spectrum distortion, depletion and neutrino-antineutrino asymmetry growth on helium-4 production are explicitly calculated. An update of the cosmological constraints on active-sterile neutrino oscillations parameters is presented, giving the values: delta m^2 sin^8 (2 theta) < 1.5 x 10^{-9} eV^2 for delta m^2 > 0, and |delta m^2| < 8.2 x 10^{-10} eV^2 at large mixing angles for delta m^2 < 0. According to these constraints, besides the active-sterile LMA solution, also the active-sterile LOW solution to the solar neutrino problem is almost totally excluded. | |
| dc.description | Extended and updated version of the invited talk, presented at the International Conference "Hot Points in Astrophysics", held in JINR, Dubna, Russia, August 22-26, 2000. An update of the cosmological constraints on active-sterile neutrino oscillation parameters is presented (Fig.2 added) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0108341 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0108341 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/98757 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Cosmological Constraints on Neutrino Oscillation Parameters | |
| dc.type | text |