Probing for variation of neutrino mass with current observations
Astrophysics
2010-10-27 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
With the latest astronomical data including Cosmic Microwave Background (WMAP three year, CBI, ACBAR, VSA), Type Ia Supernova ("gold sample"), Galaxy Clustering (SDSS 3-D matter power, Lyman- forest and Baryon Acoustic Oscillating (BAO)), we make a global fitting to constrain the mass varying neutrinos. We find that the parameter , denoting time evolving of neutrino mass, is weakly constrained and the neutrino mass limit today can be relaxed at least by a factor of two. Adding data of decay of Heidelberg-Moscow experiment to our analysis, we find that can be constrained tightly and mass varying neutrinos are favored at about 99.7% confidence level.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0611227,
title = {Probing for variation of neutrino mass with current observations},
author = {Gong-Bo Zhao and Jun-Qing Xia and Xinmin Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0611227},
year = {2010}
}
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9 pages, 4 figures