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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