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Title: Probing neutrino physics with a self-consistent treatment of the weak decoupling, nucleosynthesis, and photon decoupling epochs

Abstract

In this study, we show that a self-consistent and coupled treatment of the weak decoupling, big bang nucleosynthesis, and photon decoupling epochs can be used to provide new insights and constraints on neutrino sector physics from high-precision measurements of light element abundances and Cosmic Microwave Background observables. Implications of beyond-standard-model physics in cosmology, especially within the neutrino sector, are assessed by comparing predictions against five observables: the baryon energy density, helium abundance, deuterium abundance, effective number of neutrinos, and sum of the light neutrino mass eigenstates. We give examples for constraints on dark radiation, neutrino rest mass, lepton numbers, and scenarios for light and heavy sterile neutrinos.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States); Univ. of San Diego, San Diego, CA (United States)
  3. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1236698
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-20748
Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2015; Journal Issue: 05; Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; cosmological parameters from CMBR; big bang nucleosynthesis; cosmological neutrinos; neutrino masses from cosmology

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Grohs, E., Fuller, George M., Kishimoto, Chad T., and Paris, Mark W. Probing neutrino physics with a self-consistent treatment of the weak decoupling, nucleosynthesis, and photon decoupling epochs. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2015/05/017.
Grohs, E., Fuller, George M., Kishimoto, Chad T., & Paris, Mark W. Probing neutrino physics with a self-consistent treatment of the weak decoupling, nucleosynthesis, and photon decoupling epochs. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/05/017
Grohs, E., Fuller, George M., Kishimoto, Chad T., and Paris, Mark W. Mon . "Probing neutrino physics with a self-consistent treatment of the weak decoupling, nucleosynthesis, and photon decoupling epochs". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/05/017. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1236698.
@article{osti_1236698,
title = {Probing neutrino physics with a self-consistent treatment of the weak decoupling, nucleosynthesis, and photon decoupling epochs},
author = {Grohs, E. and Fuller, George M. and Kishimoto, Chad T. and Paris, Mark W.},
abstractNote = {In this study, we show that a self-consistent and coupled treatment of the weak decoupling, big bang nucleosynthesis, and photon decoupling epochs can be used to provide new insights and constraints on neutrino sector physics from high-precision measurements of light element abundances and Cosmic Microwave Background observables. Implications of beyond-standard-model physics in cosmology, especially within the neutrino sector, are assessed by comparing predictions against five observables: the baryon energy density, helium abundance, deuterium abundance, effective number of neutrinos, and sum of the light neutrino mass eigenstates. We give examples for constraints on dark radiation, neutrino rest mass, lepton numbers, and scenarios for light and heavy sterile neutrinos.},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2015/05/017},
journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
number = 05,
volume = 2015,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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