Towards a precision calculation of the effective number of neutrinos N_eff in the standard model. II: Neutrino decoupling in the presence of flavour oscillations and finite-temperature QED

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/04/073MaRDI QIDQ5862093zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jack J. Bennett, Gilles Buldgen, Pablo F. de Salas, M. Drewes, Stefano Gariazzo, Sergio Pastor, Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Publication date 4 March 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02726

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological neutrinosneutrino propertiesparticle physics-cosmology connectionphysics of the early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Collisions in celestial mechanics, regularization (70F16) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Nuclear physics (81V35) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55)

Abstract: We present in this work a new calculation of the standard-model benchmark value for the effective number of neutrinos, $N_{meff}^{mSM}$, that quantifies the cosmological neutrino-to-photon energy densities. The calculation takes into account neutrino flavour oscillations, finite-temperature effects in the quantum electrodynamics plasma to $calO(e^3)$, where $e$ is the elementary electric charge, and a full evaluation of the neutrino--neutrino collision integral. We provide furthermore a detailed assessment of the uncertainties in the benchmark $N_{meff}^{mSM}$ value, through testing the value's dependence on (i)~optional approximate modelling of the weak collision integrals, (ii)~measurement errors in the physical parameters of the weak sector, and (iii)~numerical convergence, particularly in relation to momentum discretisation. Our new, recommended standard-model benchmark is $N_{meff}^{mSM}=3.0440pm0.0002$, where the nominal uncertainty is attributed predominantly to errors incurred in the numerical solution procedure ($|delta{N}_{meff}|sim10^{-4}$), augmented by measurement errors in the solar mixing angle $si{n}^{2}het{a}_{12}$ ($|delta{N}_{meff}|sim10^{-4}$).

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