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Entropy production in the Early Universe. A new mechanism

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

We expose briefly the role of entropy in the early universe and in particular the importance of searching for new mechanisms of entropy production. We describe a mechanism that shows how entropy is produced during early annihilations and under which conditions the production is not negligible. A MeV tau neutrino provides an interesting application.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9708246,
  title  = {Entropy production in the Early Universe. A new mechanism},
  author = {P. Di Bari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9708246},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

9 pages, Latex, 3 ps-figures included. Talk presented in the Nato School Sesion "Generation of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure" (Erice, November 1996)