Can active-sterile neutrino oscillations lead to chaotic behavior of the cosmological lepton asymmetry?

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Hannestad, Steen ^a   Sloth Hansen, Rasmus ^a   Tram, Thomas ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cosmological neutrinos; neutrino theory; particle physics cosmology connection; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877977372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/04/032     Document Type: Article

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