Cosmological constraints on heavy weakly interacting fermions

Autor: David B. Reiss, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Edward W. Kolb, Stephen Wolfram
Rok vydání: 1981
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Zdroj: Nuclear Physics B. 177:456-460
ISSN: 0550-3213
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(81)90180-2
Popis: The masses and lifetimes of very heavy weakly interacting fermions which appear in many grand unified gauge models are constrained by the requirement that their decays in the hot big bang early universe should not generate excessive entropy which would dilute n B / n γ below its observed value.
Databáze: OpenAIRE