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How degenerate can cosmological neutrinos be?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v3 Astrophysics

Abstract

There are well-known bounds on light neutrino masses from cosmological energy density arguments. These arguments assume the neutrinos to be non-degenerate. We show how these bounds are affected if the neutrinos are degenerate. In this case, we obtain correlated bounds between neutrino mass and degeneracy.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9809410,
  title  = {How degenerate can cosmological neutrinos be?},
  author = {Palash B. Pal and Kamales Kar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9809410},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, Latex, uses epsf.sty. (Some details added at the referee's request. One reference added.)