Monday, March 18, 2013

1303.3874 (A. B. Balantekin et al.)

Neutrinos in Cosmology and Astrophysics    [PDF]

A. B. Balantekin, G. M. Fuller
We briefly review the recent developments in neutrino physics and astrophysics which have import for frontline research in nuclear physics. These developments, we argue, tie nuclear physics to exciting developments in observational cosmology and astrophysics in new ways. Moreover, the behavior of neutrinos in dense matter is itself a fundamental problem in many-body quantum mechanics, in some ways akin to well-known issues in nuclear matter and nuclei, and in some ways radically different, especially because of nonlinearity and quantum de-coherence. The self-interacting neutrino gas is the only many body system driven by the weak interactions.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3874

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