NDLI: Signatures of the neutrino thermal history in the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves

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Author	Benini, Riccardo Lattanzi, Massimilia Montani, Giovanni
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	In this paper we study the effect of the anisotropic stress generated by neutrinos on the propagation of primordial cosmological gravitational waves. The presence of anisotropic stress, like the one generated by free-streaming neutrinos, partially absorbs the gravitational waves (GWs) propagating across the Universe. We find that in the standard case of three neutrino families, 22% of the intensity of the wave is absorbed, in fair agreement with previous studies. We have also calculated the maximum possible amount of damping, corresponding to the case of a flat Universe completely dominated by ultrarelativistic collisionless particles. In this case 43% of the intensity of the wave is absorbed. Finally, we have taken into account the effect of collisions, using a simple form for the collision term parameterized by the mean time between interactions, that allows to go smoothly from the case of a tightly coupled fluid to that of a collisionless gas. The dependence of the absorption on the neutrino energy density and on the effectiveness of the interactions opens the interesting possibility of observing spectral features related to particular events in the thermal history of the Universe, like neutrino decoupling and electron–positron annihilation, both occurring at T ~ 1 MeV. GWS entering the horizon at that time will have today a frequency ν ~ 10−9 Hz, a region that is going to be probed by Pulsar Timing Arrays.
Starting Page	945
Ending Page	958
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00017701
Journal	General Relativity and Gravitation
Volume Number	43
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15729532
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2010-05-21
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Gravitational waves Neutrinos Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology Differential Geometry Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics Quantum Physics Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory Cosmology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Physics and Astronomy

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