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Distortions of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization maps caused by gravitational lensing, observable with high angular resolution and high sensitivity, can be used to measure the neutrino mass. Assuming two…

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Recent high-precision cosmological data tighten the bound to neutrino masses and start rising a tension to the results of lab-experiment measurements, which may hint new physics in the role of neutrinos during the structure formation in the…

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Through analytic techniques verified by numerical calculations, we establish general relations between the matter and cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectra and their dependence on cosmological parameters on small scales.…

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We investigate a well known scenario of interaction in the dark sector where the vacuum energy is interacting with cold dark matter throughout the cosmic evolution in light of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from final Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Rafael C. Nunes , David F. Mota

We study the cosmological signatures of new light relics that are collisionless like standard neutrinos or are strongly interacting. We provide a simple and succinct rephrasing of their physical effects in the cosmic microwave background,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Murali M. Saravanan , Thejs Brinckmann , Marilena Loverde , Zachary J. Weiner

Combining the latest Planck, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data, we exploit the recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode power spectra data released by the BICEP2 collaboration to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 Fengquan Wu , Yichao Li , Youjun Lu , Xuelei Chen

We compute the joint constraints on ten cosmological parameters from the latest CMB measurements. The lack of a significant second acoustic peak in the latest Boomerang and Maxima data favors models with more baryons than Big Bang…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Matias Zaldarriaga

The introduction of Dark Matter-neutrino interactions modifies the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) angular power spectrum at all scales, thus affecting the reconstruction of the cosmological parameters. Such interactions can lead to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Eleonora Di Valentino , Céline Bøehm , Eric Hivon , François R. Bouchet

Local measurements of the Hubble constant currently disagree with the high-precision value that is inferred from the CMB under the assumption of a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. The significance of this tension clearly motivates studying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-06 Miguel Escudero , Samuel J. Witte

Although cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the most powerful cosmological probe of neutrino masses, it is in trouble with local direct measurements of $H_0$, which is called the $H_0$ tension. Since neutrino masses are correlated with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Tomo Takahashi

Non-zero neutrino mass would affect the evolution of the Universe in observable ways, and a strong constraint on the mass can be achieved using combinations of cosmological data sets. We focus on the power spectrum of cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Kazuhide Ichikawa , Tomo Takahashi , Lincoln Greenhill

We consider heavy sterile neutrinos $\nu_s$, with mass in the range 10 MeV $\lesssim m_s \lesssim m_{\pi} \sim 135$ MeV, thermally produced in the early universe and freezing out after the QCD phase transition. The existence of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-24 L. Mastrototaro

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

Combining measurements of the galaxy power spectrum and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a powerful means of constraining the summed mass of neutrino species sum(m_nu), but is subject to systematic uncertainties due to non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Molly E. C. Swanson , Will J. Percival , Ofer Lahav

We investigate the constraints on the sum of neutrino masses ($\Sigma m_\nu$) using the most recent cosmological data, which combines the distance measurement from baryonic acoustic oscillation in the extended Baryon Oscillation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 Sai Wang , Yi-Fan Wang , Dong-Mei Xia

The Universe's initial conditions, in particular baryon and cold dark matter (CDM) isocurvature perturbations, are poorly constrained on sub-Mpc scales. In this paper, we develop a new formalism to compute the effect of small-scale baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Nanoom Lee , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

We investigate the Barrow-Tsallis Holographic Dark Energy (BTHDE) model using both traditional Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods and a Bayesian Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) framework, employing a range of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Muhammad Yarahmadi , Amin Salehi

A new tension is emerging between the tight cosmological upper bounds on the total neutrino mass ($\sum m_\nu \lesssim 0.06 \, \rm{eV}$) and the lower limits from oscillation experiments, with potentially far-reaching implications for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Guillermo Franco Abellán

We have updated the constraints on flavour universal neutrino self-interactions mediated by a heavy scalar, in the effective 4-fermion interaction limit. We use the relaxation time approximation to modify the collisional neutrino Boltzmann…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-30 Shouvik Roy Choudhury , Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram