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Using Neutrino Oscillations to Measure $H_0$

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-06-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The tension between late and early universe probes of today's expansion rate, the Hubble parameter H0H_0, remains a challenge for the standard model of cosmology Λ\LambdaCDM. There are many theoretical proposals to remove the tension, with work still needed on that front. However, by looking at new probes of the H0H_0 parameter one can get new insights that might ease the tension. Here, we argue that neutrino oscillations could be such a probe. We expand on previous work and study the full three-flavor neutrino oscillations within the Λ\LambdaCDM paradigm. We show how the oscillation probabilities evolve differently with redshift for different values of H0H_0 and neutrino mass hierarchies. We also point out how this affects neutrino fluxes which, from their measurements at neutrino telescopes, would determine which value of H0H_0 is probed by this technique, thus establishing the aforementioned aim.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.15249,
  title  = {Using Neutrino Oscillations to Measure $H_0$},
  author = {Ali Rida Khalifeh and Raul Jimenez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.15249},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

14 pages, 2 figures, 1 table and a GitHub repository. Some improvements were done to the plots. Comments and suggestions are welcome