Spin-Statistics Connexion, Neutrinos, and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Astrophysics
2011-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We show how the He-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.
Cite
@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