Decoupling of Neutrinos and the Neutrino Barrier
•Now we can write the energy density and solve for temperature:
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•Note then that timescales for expansion and decoupling are the same for T = 12 billion K at t = 0.7 sec (kT = 1 MeV).  This is the neutrino barrier, the limit of any possible neutrino astronomy.  Note also these depend only on fundamental #s.
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