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Cosmology can provide information on the absolute scale of neutrino masses, complementary to the results of tritium beta decay and neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. We show how the analysis of data from the anisotropies of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergio Pastor

Recent advances in cosmic observations have brought us to the verge of discovery of the absolute scale of neutrino masses. Nonzero neutrino masses are known evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model. Our understanding of the…

Cosmological and astrophysical measurements provide powerful constraints on neutrino masses complementary to those from accelerators and reactors. Here we provide a guide to these different probes, for each explaining its physical basis,…

Future cosmological data may be sensitive to the effects of a finite sum of neutrino masses even as small as ~0.06 eV, the lower limit guaranteed by neutrino oscillation experiments. We show that a cosmological detection of neutrino mass at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pasquale D. Serpico

Astrophysical and cosmological arguments and observations give us the most restrictive constraints on neutrino masses, electromagnetic couplings, and other properties. Conversely, massive neutrinos would contribute to the cosmic dark-matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg G. Raffelt

A range of experimental results point to the existence of a massive neutrino. The recent high precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background and the large scale surveys of galaxies can be used to place an upper bound on this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-12 C. Zunckel , P. G Ferreira

Upper limits on neutrino masses from cosmology have been reported recently to reach the impressive sub-eV level, which is competitive with future terrestrial neutrino experiments. In this brief review of the latest limits from cosmology we…

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

The bounds on neutrino masses and mixing that follows from the data on light element abundances, large scale structure formation, and angular fluctuations of cosmic microwave background radiation are analyzed. The role of neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 A. D. Dolgov

Cosmological observations have in the past few years become an increasingly powerful method for determining parameters within the neutrino sector, such as the presence of sterile states and the mass of neutrinos. I review the current status…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steen Hannestad

We review the status of neutrino mass constraints obtained from cosmological observations, with a particular focus on the results derived considering Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data by various experiments (Planck, ACT and SPT),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 S. Gariazzo

I review the basics of neutrino cosmology, from the question of neutrino decoupling and the presence of sterile neutrinos to the effects of neutrinos on the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure. Particular emphasis is put…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steen Hannestad

After a short introduction on the predicted cosmic neutrino background in the universe, we review some of the cosmological bounds related to neutrinos. In particular we show how the recent data on the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergio Pastor

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

A key question in cosmology is whether massive neutrinos exist on cosmic scales. Current cosmological observations have severely compressed the viable range for neutrino masses and even prefer phenomenologically an effective negative mass.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Deng Wang

We have performed a careful analysis of constraints on the neutrino mass from current cosmological data. Combining data from the cosmic microwave background and the 2dF galaxy survey yields an upper limit on the sum of the three neutrino…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steen Hannestad

We review some astrophysical and cosmological properties and implications of neutrino masses and mixing angles. These include: constraints based on the relic density of neutrinos, limits on their masses and lifetimes, BBN limits on mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Kimmo Kainulainen , Keith A. Olive

Cosmological implications of neutrinos are reviewed. The subjects considered involve: (a) bounds on neutrino mass from the observational limits on the universe age and the Hubble constant both in cosmology with and without cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Dolgov

The cosmological upper bound on the total neutrino mass is the dominant limit on this fundamental parameter. Recent observations-soon to be improved-have strongly tightened it, approaching the lower limit set by oscillation data.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Toni Bertólez-Martínez , Ivan Esteban , Rasmi Hajjar , Olga Mena , Jordi Salvado

There are well-known bounds on light neutrino masses from cosmological energy density arguments. These arguments assume the neutrinos to be non-degenerate. We show how these bounds are affected if the neutrinos are degenerate. In this case,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Palash B. Pal , Kamales Kar

I briefly review cosmological bounds on neutrino masses and the underlying gravitational physics at a level appropriate for readers outside the field of cosmology. For the case of three massive neutrinos with standard model freezeout, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark