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With upcoming high-quality data from surveys such as the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) or the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), improving the theoretical modeling and gaining a deeper understanding of…

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We discuss the propagation of dark matter perturbations with non-zero velocity dispersion in cosmological models. In particular a non-zero massive neutrino component may well have a significant effect on the matter power spectrum and cosmic…

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The presence of massive neutrinos affects the growth of large-scale structure in the universe, leaving a potentially observable imprint on the abundance and properties of massive dark matter-dominated halos. Cosmological surveys detect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-31 Rahul Biswas , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Amol Upadhye , Adrian Pope , Nicholas Frontiere

We study the impact of non-standard momentum distributions of cosmic neutrinos on the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background and the matter power spectrum of the large scale structure. We show that the neutrino distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-30 Isabel M. Oldengott , Gabriela Barenboim , Sarah Kahlen , Jordi Salvado , Dominik J. Schwarz

In the next decade, cosmological surveys will have the statistical power to detect the absolute neutrino mass scale. N-body simulations of large-scale structure formation play a central role in interpreting data from such surveys. Yet these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 Caio Bastos de Senna Nascimento , Marilena Loverde

The massive neutrinos gravitational infall and their inprints left on the CMB temperature and matter density fluctuations power spectra are analysed taking into account the massive neutrino properties: the mass degeneracy, the phase space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. A. Popa

The present experimental results on neutrino flavour oscillations provide evidence for non-zero neutrino masses, but give no hint on their absolute mass scale, which is the target of beta decay and neutrinoless double-beta decay…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Lesgourgues , Sergio Pastor

Future large scale structure observations are expected to be sensitive to small neutrino masses, of the order of 0.05 eV or more. However, forecasts are based on the assumption that by the time at which these datasets will be available, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-05 J. Lesgourgues , S. Matarrese , M. Pietroni , A. Riotto

Constraining neutrino mass through cosmological observations relies on precise simulations to calibrate their effects on large scale structure, while these simulations must overcome computational challenges like dealing with large velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Bing-Hang Chen , Jun-Jie Zhao , Hao-Ran Yu , Yu Liu , Jian-Hua He , Yipeng Jing

Massive neutrinos have a detectable effect on cosmological structure formation, in particular on the large-scale distribution of galaxies. Adding Hot Dark Matter to the now-standard Lambda CDM model leads to a worse fit to large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Gawiser

We present a novel, fast and precise method for including the effect of light neutrinos in cosmological N-body simulations. The effect of the neutrino component is included by using the linear theory neutrino perturbations in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Jacob Brandbyge , Steen Hannestad

Accurate cosmological simulations that include the effect of non-linear matter clustering as well as of massive neutrinos are essential for measuring the neutrino mass scale from upcoming galaxy surveys. Typically, Newtonian simulations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-24 Christian Partmann , Christian Fidler , Cornelius Rampf , Oliver Hahn

Effective field theory of dark matter fluid on large scales predicts the presence of viscosity of the order of $10^{-6} H_0 M_P^2$. It has been shown that this magnitude of viscosities can resolve the discordance between large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Sampurn Anand , Prakrut Chaubal , Arindam Mazumdar , Subhendra Mohanty , Priyank Parashari

There is a renewed interest in constraining the sum of the masses of the three neutrino flavours by using cosmological measurements. Solar, atmospheric, and reactor neutrino experiments have confirmed neutrino oscillations, implying that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Oystein Elgaroy , Ofer Lahav

The redistribution of baryonic matter in massive halos through processes like active galactic nuclei feedback and star formation leads to a suppression of the matter power spectrum on small scales. This redistribution can be measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 Sebastian Grandis , Giovanni Arico' , Aurel Schneider , Laila Linke

We investigate the non-linear evolution of the matter power spectrum by using a large set of high-resolution N-body/hydrodynamic simulations. The linear matter power in the initial conditions is consistently modified to accommodate warm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Matteo Viel , Katarina Markovic , Marco Baldi , Jochen Weller

We consider generic models of quintessence and we investigate the influence of massive neutrino matter with field-dependent masses on the matter power spectrum. In case of minimally coupled neutrino matter, we examine the effect in tracker…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-28 Chao-Qiang Geng , Chung-Chi Lee , R. Myrzakulov , M. Sami , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Neutrinos are believed to be the most abundant fermions in the Universe, but their masses are unknown, except for being non-zero but much smaller than other fermions. Cosmological relic neutrinos could also have non-zero chemical potentials…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Wangzheng Zhang , Ming-chung Chu , Rui Hu , Shihong Liao , Shek Yeung

Models of dark energy in which neutrinos interact with the scalar field supposed to be responsible for the acceleration of the universe usually imply a variation of the neutrino masses on cosmological time scales. In this work we propose a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Urbano Franca , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Julien Lesgourgues , Sergio Pastor

We present a new closed-form formula for the matter power spectrum in the presence of massive neutrinos that gives an accuracy of better than 5\% on all scales. It is the first closed-form result valid on all scales. To calculate this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Farshad Kamalinejad , Zachary Slepian