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Quantum Coherence of Relic Neutrinos
George M. Fuller, Chad T. Kishimoto
We argue that in at least a portion of the history of the universe the relic background neutrinos are spatially-extended, coherent superpositions of mass states. We show that an ap…
Lepton Number-Driven Sterile Neutrino Production in the Early Universe
Chad T. Kishimoto, George M. Fuller
We examine medium-enhanced, neutrino scattering-induced decoherent production of dark matter candidate sterile neutrinos in the early universe. In cases with a significant net lept…
Light Element Signatures of Sterile Neutrinos and Cosmological Lepton Numbers
Christel J. Smith, George M. Fuller, Chad T. Kishimoto +1
We study primordial nucleosynthesis abundance yields for assumed ranges of cosmological lepton numbers, sterile neutrino mass-squared differences and active-sterile vacuum mixing a…
Coherent Active-Sterile Neutrino Flavor Transformation in the Early Universe
Chad T. Kishimoto, George M. Fuller, Christel J. Smith
We solve the problem of coherent Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) resonant active-to-sterile neutrino flavor conversion driven by an initial lepton number in the early universe.…
Neutrino-Accelerated Hot Hydrogen Burning
Chad T. Kishimoto, George M. Fuller
We examine the effects of significant electron anti-neutrino fluxes on hydrogen burning. Specifically, we find that the bottleneck weak nuclear reactions in the traditional pp-chai…