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Main Authors: Ge, Shao-Feng, Pasquini, Pedro, Tan, Liang
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16972
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author Ge, Shao-Feng
Pasquini, Pedro
Tan, Liang
author_facet Ge, Shao-Feng
Pasquini, Pedro
Tan, Liang
contents We thoroughly explore the cosmic gravitational focusing of cosmic neutrino fluid (C$ν$F) by dark matter (DM) halo using both general relativity for a point source of gravitational potential and Boltzmann equations for continuous overdensities. Derived in the general way for both relativistic and non-relativistic neutrinos, our results show that the effect has fourth power dependence on the neutrino mass and temperature. With nonlinear mass dependence which is different from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and large scale structure (LSS) observations, the cosmic gravitational focusing can provide an independent cosmological way of measuring the neutrino mass and ordering. We take DESI as an example to illustrate that the projected sensitivity as well as its synergy with existing terrestrial neutrino oscillation experiments and other cosmological observations can significantly improve the neutrino mass measurement.
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spellingShingle Neutrino Mass Measurement with Cosmic Gravitational Focusing
Ge, Shao-Feng
Pasquini, Pedro
Tan, Liang
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We thoroughly explore the cosmic gravitational focusing of cosmic neutrino fluid (C$ν$F) by dark matter (DM) halo using both general relativity for a point source of gravitational potential and Boltzmann equations for continuous overdensities. Derived in the general way for both relativistic and non-relativistic neutrinos, our results show that the effect has fourth power dependence on the neutrino mass and temperature. With nonlinear mass dependence which is different from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and large scale structure (LSS) observations, the cosmic gravitational focusing can provide an independent cosmological way of measuring the neutrino mass and ordering. We take DESI as an example to illustrate that the projected sensitivity as well as its synergy with existing terrestrial neutrino oscillation experiments and other cosmological observations can significantly improve the neutrino mass measurement.
title Neutrino Mass Measurement with Cosmic Gravitational Focusing
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16972