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arxiv: hep-ph/9609464 · v1 · submitted 1996-09-25 · ✦ hep-ph

Cosmological abundances of right-handed Dirac neutrinos

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keywords discussedright-helicityabundanceabundancesbosonboundbroughtcomponent
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The equilibration of the right-helicity states $\nu_+$ of light Dirac-neutrinos is discussed. I point out that the $\nu_+$ production rate is enhanced by weak gauge boson pole effects so that the right-helicity component of $\nu_\tau$ is brought into equilibrium at $T\simeq 10$ GeV independently of the initial abundance, provided $m_{\nu_{\tau}}\gsim 10$ keV. Neutrino spin flip in primordial magnetic fields and the resulting bound on $\mu_\nu$ is also discussed.

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