%0 Journal Article
%T Lepton number asymmetries and the lower bound on the reheating temperature
%A Barenboim, G.
%A Park, W. I.
%J Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
%D 2017
%V 12
%N 12
%I Iop Publishing Ltd
%@ 1475-7516
%G English
%F Barenboim+Park2017
%O WOS:000418672700001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3430), last updated on Fri, 05 Jan 2018 17:35:16 +0000
%X We show that the reheating temperature of a matter-domination era in the early universe can be pushed down to the neutrino decoupling temperature at around 2 MeV if the reheating takes place through non-hadronic decays of the dominant matter and neutrino-antineutrino asymmetries are still large enough, vertical bar L vertical bar greater than or similar to O(10(-2)) (depending on the neutrino flavor) at the end of reheating.
%K cosmological neutrinos
%K physics of the early universe
%R 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/12/037
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04899
%U https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/12/037
%P 037-13pp