Resurrection of large lepton number asymmetries from neutrino flavor oscillations

Gabriela Barenboim; William H. Kinney; Wan Il Park

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.043506

Resurrection of large lepton number asymmetries from neutrino flavor oscillations

Gabriela Barenboim
, William H. Kinney
, Wan Il Park

Physics

University of Valencia

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	043506
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	95
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.043506
State	Published - Feb 8 2017

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