22–26 Jun 2026
Richard Roberts Auditorium
Europe/London timezone

Limits on total lepton number and lepton flavour asymmetries from BBN and the CMB

Not scheduled
20m
Richard Roberts Auditorium

Richard Roberts Auditorium

13 Brook Hill, Sheffield S3 7HF
Contributed Talk

Speaker

Mario Fernandez Navarro (University of Zurich)

Description

In this talk, I will discuss the impact of lepton flavour asymmetries on BBN and the CMB. I will show that solving the momentum averaged quantum kinetic equations describing neutrino oscillations and interactions is an accurate approximation to the full momentum-dependent system. Our formalism allow us to study the scenario of total vanishing lepton number, revealing a rich flavour structure in stark contradiction to the assumption of simple flavour equilibration. We then achieve a limit on the maximal primordial total lepton number L, while specific flavour directions can be even more constrained. I will also present the publicly available COFLASY code based on our momentum-averaged formalism, which is orders of magnitude faster than similar codes which solve the full-momentum dependent system.

Author

Mario Fernandez Navarro (University of Zurich)

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