Resurrection of large lepton number asymmetries from neutrino flavor oscillations

Gabriela Barenboim, William H. Kinney, and Wan-Il Park
Phys. Rev. D 95, 043506 – Published 8 February 2017

Abstract

We numerically solve the evolution equations of neutrino three-flavor density matrices, and show that, even if neutrino oscillations mix neutrino flavors, large lepton number asymmetries are still allowed in certain limits by big bang nucleosynthesis.

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  • Received 13 September 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.043506

© 2017 American Physical Society

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Gabriela Barenboim1,*, William H. Kinney2,†, and Wan-Il Park1,‡

  • 1Departament de Física Teòrica and IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain
  • 2Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, 239 Fronczak Hall, Buffalo, New York 14260-1500, USA

  • *Gabriela.Barenboim@uv.es
  • whkinney@buffalo.edu
  • Wanil.Park@uv.es

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Vol. 95, Iss. 4 — 15 February 2017

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