A reexamination of the cosmological bound to the number of neutrino flavors

G. Steigman; K. A. Olive; D. N. Schramm; M. S. Turner

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(86)90920-2

A reexamination of the cosmological bound to the number of neutrino flavors

G. Steigman, K. A. Olive, D. N. Schramm, M. S. Turner

Physics and Astronomy (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

The predictions of the light element abundances produced primordially in the standard hot big bang cosmological model with three species of light neutrinos (N_ν=3) is consistent with current observational data. If additional species of light neutrinos exist, additional ⁴He is produced primordially; consistency with observations of ⁴He leads to an upper bound to N_ν which depends on the neutron half-life (τ_{1 2}), the nucleon-to-photon ratio (or, equivalently, the primordial abundances of deuterium and helium-3) and the primordial mass fraction of ⁴He (Y_p). The bounds to these quantities are reexamined and N_ν≤4.0 is reconfirmed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	33-38
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	176
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(86)90920-2
State	Published - Aug 21 1986

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NSF and the DOE and, at Fermilab their research is supported by NASA.

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The research of Gary Steigman is supported at Bartol by the DOE (DE-AC02-78ER-05007), that of K.A.O. is supported at Minnesota also by the DOE (DE-AC02-83ER-40105), at Chicago the research of D.N.S. and M.S.T. is supported by the

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