Neutrinos and Future Concordance Cosmologies
Astrophysics
2008-12-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We review the free parameters in the concordance cosmology, and those which might be added to this set as the quality of astrophysical data improves. Most concordance parameters encode information about otherwise unexplored aspects of high energy physics, up to the GUT scale via the "inflationary sector," and possibly even the Planck scale in the case of dark energy. We explain how neutrino properties may be constrained by future astrophysical measurements. Conversely, future neutrino physics experiments which directly measure these parameters will remove uncertainty from fits to astrophysical data, and improve our ability to determine the global properties of our universe.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.2591,
title = {Neutrinos and Future Concordance Cosmologies},
author = {Peter Adshead and Richard Easther},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2591},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Proceedings of paper given at Neutrino 2008 meeting (by RE)