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Cosmological lepton asymmetry with a nonzero mixing angle theta(13)

Castorina, Emanuele
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Franca, Urbano
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Lattanzi, Massimiliano
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2012
Physical Review D [1970-2015]

While the baryon asymmetry of the Universe is nowadays well measured by cosmological observations, the bounds on the lepton asymmetry in the form of neutrinos are still significantly weaker. We place limits on the relic neutrino asymmetries using some of the latest cosmological data, taking into account the effect of flavor oscillations. We present our results for two different values of the neutrino mixing angle theta(13), and show that for large theta(13) the limits on the total neutrino asymmetry become more stringent, diluting even large initial flavor asymmetries. In particular, we find that the present bounds are still dominated by the limits coming from big bang nucleosynthesis, while the limits on the total neutrino mass from cosmological data are essentially independent of theta(13). Finally, we perform a forecast for Cosmic Origins Explorer, taken as an example of a future cosmic microwave background experiment, and find that it could improve the limits on the total lepton asymmetry approximately by up to a factor 6.6.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.86.023517
Web of Science ID

WOS:000306320000003

Author(s)
Castorina, Emanuele
Franca, Urbano
Lattanzi, Massimiliano
Lesgourgues, Julien  
Mangano, Gianpiero
Melchiorri, Alessandro
Pastor, Sergio
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

American Physical Society

Published in
Physical Review D [1970-2015]
Volume

86

Issue

2

Article Number

023517

Subjects

Flavor Oscillations

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Neutrino Degeneracy

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Power Spectrum

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Early Universe

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Telescope

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Constraints

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Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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August 3, 2012
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