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共振产生的不育中微子的宇宙学依赖性

Cosmological Dependence of Resonantly Produced Sterile Neutrinos

Graciela B. Gelmini, Philip Lu, Volodymyr Takhistov

摘要:

无菌中微子的探测可能构成对可能在大爆炸核合成(BBN)之前产生的粒子的首次观测,并可能提供有关尚未测试的前BBN时代的信息。这个时代的宇宙学演化可能与标准宇宙学中通常假设的截然不同,就像各种有动机的粒子模型中发生的那样。在这项工作中,我们评估不同的前BBN宇宙学中的熵是保守的0.01 eV至1 MeV的质量无菌中微子在早期宇宙通过共振活性无菌振荡,这需要一个大的轻子不对称性的敏感性。我们确定的质量范围内,它是可能有两个人口相同的不育中微子,一个与冷,一个与热的动量谱,这是在原则上可观察到的效果。此外,我们显示的区域中的质量和混合完全共振生产(即同时相干和绝热)可以发生。我们发现,在我们考虑的几个宇宙学,包括标准的,对于一个轻子不对称性大于$\sim10^{-4}$完全共振产生的无菌中微子在eV质量范围内可以逃避所有的宇宙学约束。

英文摘要:

The detection of a sterile neutrino could constitute the first observation of a particle that could have been produced before Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), and could provide information about the yet untested pre-BBN era. The cosmological evolution in this era could be drastically different than typically assumed in what constitutes the standard cosmology, as happens in a variety of motivated particle models. In this work we assess the sensitivity to different pre-BBN cosmologies in which entropy is conserved of 0.01 eV to 1 MeV mass sterile neutrinos produced in the early Universe via resonant active-sterile oscillations, which requires a large lepton asymmetry. We identify mass ranges where it is possible to have two populations of the same sterile neutrino, one with a colder and one with a hotter momentum spectra, which is in principle an observable effect. Furthermore, we show the regions in mass and mixing where fully resonant production (i.e. simultaneously coherent and adiabatic) can occur. We find that in several of the cosmologies we consider, including the standard one, for a lepton asymmetry larger than $\sim10^{-4}$ fully resonantly produced sterile neutrinos in the eV-mass range can evade all cosmological constraints.

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