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Clustering in growing neutrino cosmologies

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-11-18 v1

Abstract

We show that growing neutrino models, in which the growing neutrino mass stops the dynamical evolution of a dark energy scalar field, lead to a substantial neutrino clustering on the scales of superclusters. Nonlinear neutrino lumps form at redshift z ~ 1 and could partially drag the clustering of dark matter. If observed, large scale non-linear structures could be an indication for a new attractive force stronger than gravity and mediated by the 'cosmon' dark energy scalar field.

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@article{arxiv.0901.1239,
  title  = {Clustering in growing neutrino cosmologies},
  author = {Valeria Pettorino and David F. Mota and Georg Robbers and Christof Wetterich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1239},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

To appear in the American institute of Physics (AIP). Proceedings of the DSU 2008 - 4th International Workshop on the Dark Side of the Universe, Cairo

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