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Cold + Hot Dark Matter Cosmology with $m(\nu_\mu) \approx m(\nu_\tau) \approx 2.4$ ev

Astrophysics 2009-10-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Cold + Hot Dark Matter (CHDM) Ω=1\Omega=1 cosmological models require a total neutrino mass 5\sim 5 eV. Because recent data support the νμντ\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau oscillation explanation of the cosmic ray νμ\nu_\mu deficit, which requires that m(νμ)m(ντ)m(\nu_\mu) \approx m(\nu_\tau), this suggests that m(νμ)m(ντ)2.4m(\nu_\mu) \approx m(\nu_\tau) \approx 2.4 eV. The linear calculations and N-body simulation reported here indicate that an Ω=1\Omega=1 CHDM model with two 2.4 eV neutrinos (designated Cν2\nu^2DM) agrees remarkably well with all available observations, but only if the Hubble parameter h0.5h \approx 0.5. We also show that even one 2.4 eV neutrino raises serious difficulties for low-Ω\Omega flat CDM models.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9411020,
  title  = {Cold + Hot Dark Matter Cosmology with $m(\nu_\mu) \approx m(\nu_\tau) \approx 2.4$ ev},
  author = {Joel R. Primack and Jon Holtzman and Anatoly Klypin and David O. Caldwell Comments 8 pages and uuencoded compressed . ps file},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9411020},
  year   = {2009}
}