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Spin-Statistics Connexion, Neutrinos, and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Astrophysics 2011-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show how the 4^4He-abundance in the early Universe can be used to demonstrate that macroscopic samples of neutrinos in thermal equilibrium are indeed distributed according to Fermi-Dirac statistics.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9506040,
  title  = {Spin-Statistics Connexion, Neutrinos, and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis},
  author = {L. Cucurull and J. A. Grifols and R. Toldrà},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9506040},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

9 pages in plain LaTeX, 3 postscript figures in a separate tarred compressed uuencoded file. Revised version with minor quantitative changes. Figure 1 includes now a study of all light elements. Conclusions unchanged. To be published in Astroparticle Physics