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We discuss a new algorithm to generate multi-scale initial conditions with multiple levels of refinements for cosmological "zoom-in" simulations. The method uses an adaptive convolution of Gaussian white noise with a real space transfer…

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We consider a class of models in which the neutrinos acquire Majorana masses through mixing with singlet neutrinos that emerge as composite states of a strongly coupled hidden sector. In this framework, the light neutrinos are partially…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-16 Zackaria Chacko , Patrick J. Fox , Roni Harnik , Zhen Liu

While it is established that the effect of neutrinos on the evolution of cosmic structure is small, the upper limits derived from large-scale structure could help significantly to constrain the absolute scale of the neutrino masses. Current…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ofer Lahav , Oystein Elgaroy

We develop a higher-order perturbation theory for large-scale structure formation involving a free-streaming hot or warm dark matter species. We focus on the case of mixed cold dark matter and massive neutrinos, although our approach is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Florian Führer , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

The set-up of the initial conditions in cosmological N-body simulations is usually implemented by rescaling the desired low-redshift linear power spectrum to the required starting redshift consistently with the Newtonian evolution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Matteo Zennaro , Julien Bel , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Carmelita Carbone , Emiliano Sefusatti , Luigi Guzzo

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

We present an efficient and accurate method for simulating massive neutrinos in cosmological structure formation simulations, together with an easy to use public implementation. Our method builds on our earlier implementation of the linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Simeon Bird , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Yu Feng , Jia Liu

Using a suite of hydrodynamical simulations with cold dark matter, baryons, and neutrinos, we present a detailed study of the effect of massive neutrinos on the 1-D and 3-D flux power spectra of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Christian Pedersen , Andreu Font-Ribera , Thomas D. Kitching , Patrick McDonald , Simeon Bird , Anže Slosar , Keir K. Rogers , Andrew Pontzen

In this work, we propose a powerful probe of neutrino effects on the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, i.e., Minkowski functionals (MFs). The morphology of LSS can be fully described by four MFs. This tool, with strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-23 Yu Liu , Yu Yu , Hao-Ran Yu , Pengjie Zhang

We present the first attempt to analytically study the nonlinear matter power spectrum for a mixed dark matter (cold dark matter plus neutrinos of total mass ~0.1eV) model based on cosmological perturbation theory. The suppression in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Shun Saito , Masahiro Takada , Atsushi Taruya

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

We investigate the impact of massive neutrinos on the distribution of matter in the semi-non-linear regime (0.1<k<0.6 h/Mpc). We present a suite of large-scale N-body simulations quantifying the scale dependent suppression of the total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-30 Shankar Agarwal , Hume A. Feldman

The presence of light (m_a ~ 10^-6 ev) scalar fields in the early universe can modify the cosmology of neutrinos considerably by allowing their masses to vary on cosmological times. In this paper, we consider the effect of Planck-suppressed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Neal Weiner , Kathryn Zurek

(abridged) We analyse the clustering features of Large Scale Structures (LSS) in the presence of massive neutrinos, employing a set of large-volume, high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations, where neutrinos are treated as a separate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-07 Emanuele Castorina , Carmelita Carbone , Julien Bel , Emiliano Sefusatti , Klaus Dolag

Providing accurate predictions for the spatial distribution of matter and luminous tracers in the presence of massive neutrinos is an important task, given the imminent arrival of highly accurate large-scale structure observations. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-04 Matteo Zennaro , Raúl E. Angulo , Giovanni Aricò , Sergio Contreras , Marcos Pellejero-Ibáñez

We present high--spatial resolution studies of the density field as predicted by Lagrangian perturbation approximations up to the third order. The first--order approximation is equivalent to the ``Zel'dovich approximation'' for the type of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Thomas Buchert , Georgios Karakatsanis , Robert Klaffl , Peter Schiller

We explore a self-interacting neutrino cosmology in which neutrinos experience a delayed onset of free-streaming. We use the effective field theory of large-scale structure (LSS) to model matter distribution on mildly non-linear scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-03 Adam He , Rui An , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Vera Gluscevic

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-04 Graziano Rossi

Some of the dark matter in the Universe is made up of massive neutrinos. Their impact on the formation of large scale structure can be used to determine their absolute mass scale from cosmology, but to this end accurate numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-09 Julian Adamek , Ruth Durrer , Martin Kunz

We develop a Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT) framework to study the clustering of cold dark matter (CDM) in cosmologies with massive neutrinos. We follow the trajectories of CDM particles with Lagrangian displacements fields up to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Alejandro Aviles , Arka Banerjee