On the average thermal evolution of the universe

DOI10.1142/9789814689304_0049zbMATH Open1342.85007arXiv1404.1833OpenAlexW2328790177MaRDI QIDQ3178431FDOQ3178431

Authors: Natacha Leite, A. H. Blin 

Publication date: 13 July 2016

Published in: Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology: Predictions, Observations and New Projects (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We sketch the average behaviour of the temperatures and densities of the main components of the $Lambda$CDM universe after inflation. It is modelled as a perfect fluid with dark energy associated with the macroscopic effect of conformal variations of the metric. The main events of the thermal evolution are studied, such as the effect of particle annihilations and decoupling, and the transitions between the eras dominated by different entities. Estimates of the average present epoch temperature of baryonic matter and dark matter composed of neutralinos are given. We study the eventual presence of a sterile neutrino component and find that the sterile neutrino density at the epoch of primordial nucleosynthesis is in agreement with expectations when their evolution starts, at the end of inflation, in temperature equilibrium with the rest of the universe.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1833

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyneutrinosthermal history

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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