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Constraints on Neutrino-Neutrino Interactions from Primordial Nucleosynthesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

We use the constraints arising from primordial nucleosynthesis to bound the strength FF of non-standard neutrino-neutrino interactions, when the right-handed neutrinos participate in the interaction. We find F<3×103 GFF < 3 \times 10^{-3}\ G_F, which is five orders of magnitude more stringent than the limit obtained using LEP data. We also show that secret interactions of neutrinos mediated by massless particles must have a coupling ff less than 2×1052 \times 10^{-5}. This also ameliorates previous limits in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9404339,
  title  = {Constraints on Neutrino-Neutrino Interactions from Primordial Nucleosynthesis},
  author = {Eduard Massó and Ramon Toldrà},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9404339},
  year   = {2009}
}

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