ar X iv : h ep - p h / 96 03 20 1 v 1 1 M ar 1 99 6 Nucleosynthesis and the Mass of the τ Neutrino

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  • Jes Madsen
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The primordial abundance of long-lived heavy Majorana neutrinos is calculated from the full Boltzmann equation. Inclusion of scattering reactions drastically change the predicted abundance of a heavy neutrino species. This loosens the well known mass constraint on MeV neutrinos from Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and allows for the existence of a Majorana τ neutrino with mass mντ ≥ 11 MeV. Further experimental efforts are therefore needed to investigate the range 11MeV ≤ mντ ≤ 24MeV. Some interesting cosmological consequences of an MeV ντ are also pointed out. 98.80.Ft, 14.60.Pq, 26.35.+c Physical Review Letters (in press) Typeset using REVTEX

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تاریخ انتشار 1996