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Entropy production in the Early Universe. A new mechanism

1997/08/05 by P. Di Bari, Di Bari, P.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #astro-ph #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9708246

9 pages, Latex, 3 ps-figures included. Talk presented in the Nato School Sesion "Generation of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure" (Erice, November 1996)

arxiv created 1997/08/05 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We expose briefly the role of entropy in the early universe and in particular the importance of searching for new mechanisms of entropy production. We describe a mechanism that shows how entropy is produced during early annihilations and under which conditions the production is not negligible. A MeV tau neutrino provides an interesting application.

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