New constraints on neutrino masses from cosmology

Details New constraints on neutrino masses from cosmology New constraints on neutrino masses from cosmology

Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006newar..50.1020m&link_type=abstract

New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 50, Issue 11-12, p. 1020-1024.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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By combining data from cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments (including the recent WMAP third year results), large scale structure (LSS) and Lyman-α forest observations, we derive upper limits on the sum of neutrino masses of Σmν < 0.17 eV at 95% c.l. We then constrain the hypothesis of a fourth, sterile, massive neutrino. For the third massless +1 massive neutrino case we bound the mass of the sterile neutrino to ms < 0.26 eV at 95% c.l. These results exclude at high significance the sterile neutrino hypothesis as an explanation of the LSND anomaly. We then generalize the analysis to account for active neutrino masses which tightens the limit to ms < 0.23 eV and the possibility that the sterile abundance is not thermal. In the latter case, the constraints in the (mass, density) plane are non-trivial. For a mass of >1 eV or <0.05 eV the cosmological energy density in sterile neutrinos is always constrained to be ων < 0.003 at 95% c.l. However, for a sterile neutrino mass of ˜0.25 eV, ων can be as large as 0.01.

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