Neutrino oscillations in the early Universe with nonequilibrium neutrino distributions.

Around one second after the big bang, neutrino decoupling and e-e annihilation distort the Fermi-Dirac spectrum of neutrino energies. Assuming neutrinos have masses and can mix, we compute the distortions using nonequilibrium thermodynamics and the Boltzmann equation. The flavor behavior of neutrinos is studied during and following the generation of the distortion. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D Permanent address: Physics Department, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA. E-mail: [email protected]