Constraining Neutrino Masses by CMB Experiments Alone

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2004-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409768v3

Phys.Rev.D71:043001,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

30 pages, 10 figures; (v2) 34 pages, 12 figures; (v3) to appear in PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.71.043001

It is shown that a subelectronvolt upper limit can be derived on the neutrino mass from the CMB data alone in the Lambda CDM model with the power-law adiabatic perturbations, without the aid of any other cosmological data. Assuming the flatness of the universe, the constraint we can derive from the current WMAP observations is \sum m_nu < 2.0 eV at the 95% confidence level for the sum over three species of neutrinos (m_nu < 0.66 eV for the degenerate neutrinos). This constraint modifies little even if we abandon the flatness assumption for the spatial curvature. We argue that it would be difficult to improve the limit much beyond \sum m_nu \lesssim 1.5 eV using only the CMB data, even if their statistics are substantially improved. However, a significant improvement of the limit is possible if an external input is introduced that constrains the Hubble constant from below. The parameter correlation and the mechanism of CMB perturbations that give rise to the limit on the neutrino mass are also elucidated.

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