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Cosmological Constraints on Bulk Neutrinos

Kevork Abazajian, George M. Fuller, Mitesh Patel

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0011048

Abstract

Recent models invoking extra spacelike dimensions inhabited by (bulk) neutrinos are shown to have significant cosmological effects if the size of the largest extra dimension is R > 1 fm. We consider effects on cosmic microwave background anisotropies, big bang nucleosynthesis, deuterium and Li-6 photoproduction, diffuse photon backgrounds, and structure formation. The resulting constraints can be stronger than either bulk graviton overproduction constraints or laboratory constraints.

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