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We propose a flexible and model independent parametrization of the neutrino mixing matrix, which takes advantage of the fact that there are up to three small quantities in neutrino mixing phenomenology: (i) the deviation from maximal mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Rodejohann

The focal-plane detector system for the KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment consists of a multi-pixel silicon p-i-n-diode array, custom readout electronics, two superconducting solenoid magnets, an ultra high-vacuum system, a…

We perform a joint analysis of current data from cosmology and laboratory experiments to constrain the neutrino mass parameters in the framework of bayesian statistics, also accounting for uncertainties in nuclear modeling, relevant for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-10 Martina Gerbino , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Alessandro Melchiorri

Neutrino masses remain a significant unsolved problem in physics and their nonzero value proves the Standard Model is incomplete. Currently, the values of the three masses only have upper limits from cosmology and experiments like KATRIN.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 Robert Ehrlich

Measuring the total neutrino mass is one of the most exciting opportunities available with next-generation cosmological data sets. We study the possibility of detecting the total neutrino mass using large-scale clustering in 21cm intensity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Mario Ballardini , Roy Maartens

Neutrino oscillation and tritium beta decay experiments taken simultaneously into account are able to access the so far imperceptible absolute neutrino masses at the electronvolt level. The neutrino mass spectrum derived in this way is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-21 M. Czakon , J. Gluza , J. Studnik , M. Zralek

We consider cosmological models with dynamical dark energy (dDE) coupled to cold dark matter (CDM), while simultaneously allowing neutrinos to be massive. Using a MCMC approach, we compare these models with a wide range of cosmological data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-26 J. R. Kristiansen , G. La Vacca , L. P. L. Colombo , R. Mainini , S. A. Bonometto

We present forecasts for the accuracy of determining the parameters of a minimal cosmological model and the total neutrino mass based on combined mock data for a future Euclid-like galaxy survey and Planck. We consider two different galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Benjamin Audren , Julien Lesgourgues , Simeon Bird , Martin G. Haehnelt , Matteo Viel

Cosmological constraints on the sum of the neutrino masses can be relaxed if the number density of active neutrinos is reduced compared to the standard scenario, while at the same time keeping the effective number of neutrino species…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-24 Miguel Escudero , Thomas Schwetz , Jorge Terol-Calvo

Current measurements of the large-scale structure of galaxies are able to place an $\sim 0.5 ~ \rm eV$ upper limit on the absolute mass scale of neutrinos. An order-of-magnitude improvement in raw sensitivity, together with an insensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. B. Abdalla , S. Rawlings

A direct discovery of the cosmic neutrino background would bring to a closure the searches for relic left-over radiation predicted by the Hot Big Bang cosmology. Recently, the KATRIN experiment put a limit on the local relic neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-06 Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Josef Pradler , Anastasia Sokolenko

Recently announced results from the KATRIN collaboration imply an upper bound on the effective electron anti-neutrino mass $m_{\nu_{e}}$, $m_{\nu_{e}}< 0.8~{\rm eV}/c^{2}$. Here we explore the implications of combining the KATRIN upper…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-09 Ephraim Fischbach , Dennis E. Krause , Quan Le Thien , Carol Scarlett

The study of the neutrinoless double beta ($0 \beta\beta$) decay mode can provide us with important information on the neutrino properties, particularly on the electron neutrino absolute mass. In this work we revise the present constraints…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-25 Sabin Stoica , Andrei Neacsu

We reconstruct the neutrino mass as a function of redshift, z, from current cosmological data using both standard binned priors and linear spline priors with variable knots. Using cosmic microwave background temperature, polarization and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Christiane S. Lorenz , Lena Funcke , Matthias Löffler , Erminia Calabrese

We forecast the sensitivity of thirty-five different combinations of future Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure data sets to cosmological parameters and to the total neutrino mass. We work under conservative assumptions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Thejs Brinckmann , Deanna C. Hooper , Maria Archidiacono , Julien Lesgourgues , Tim Sprenger

The various experiments on neutrino oscillation evidenced that neutrinos have indeed non-zero masses but cannot tell us the absolute neutrino mass scale. This scale of neutrino masses is very important for understanding the evolution and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-09-05 Christian Weinheimer , Kai Zuber

Right-handed neutrinos are a natural extension of the Standard Model of particle physics. Such particles would only interact through the mixing with the left-handed neutrinos, hence they are called sterile neutrinos. If their mass were in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-12 Manuel Lebert , Tim Brunst , Thibaut Houdy , Susanne Mertens , Daniel Siegmann

A large calorimetric neutrino mass experiment using thermal detectors is expected to play a crucial role in the challenge for directly assessing the neutrino mass. We discuss and compare here two approaches to the estimation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 A. Nucciotti , E. Ferri , O. Cremonesi

We study the physics potential of the detection of the Cosmic Neutrino Background via neutrino capture on tritium, taking the proposed PTOLEMY experiment as a case study. With the projected energy resolution of $\Delta \sim$ 0.15 eV, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-13 Andrew J. Long , Cecilia Lunardini , Eray Sabancilar

Neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is a heretofore unobserved process which, if observed, would imply that neutrinos are Majorana particles. Interpretations of the stringent experimental constraints on $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay…