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Mangano, Gianpiero; Miele, Gennaro; Pastor, Sergio; Pinto, Teguayco; Pisanti, Ofelia; Serpico, Pasquale D.
Nuclear physics. B, 11/2006, Volume: 756, Issue: 1Journal Article
We consider the decoupling of neutrinos in the early Universe in presence of non-standard neutral current neutrino–electron interactions (NSI). We first discuss a semi-analytical approach to solve the relevant kinetic equations and then present the results of fully numerical and momentum-dependent calculations, including flavor neutrino oscillations. We present our results in terms of both the effective number of neutrino species ( N eff ) and the impact on the abundance of 4He produced during big bang nucleosynthesis. We find that the presence of neutrino–electron NSI may enhance the entropy transfer from electron–positron pairs into neutrinos instead of photons, up to a value of N eff ≃ 3.12 for NSI parameters within the ranges allowed by present laboratory data, which is almost three times the effect that appears for standard weak interactions. Thus non-standard neutrino–electron interactions do not essentially modify the density of relic neutrinos nor the bounds on neutrino properties from cosmological observables, such as their mass.
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