Bulk viscosity of a gas of neutrinos and coupled scalar particles, in the era of recombination

Abstract

Bulk viscosity may serve to damp sound waves in a system of neutrinos coupled to very light scalar particles, in the era after normal neutrino decoupling but before recombination. We calculate the bulk viscosity parameter in a minimal scheme involving the coupling of the two systems. We add some remarks on the bulk viscosity of a system of fully ionized hydrogen plus photons.

arXiv comment6 pages, 4 figures

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