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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

We review the current status of neutrino cosmology, focusing mainly on the question of the absolute values of neutrino masses and the possibility of a cosmological neutrino lepton asymmetry.

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Steen Hannestad

The physics of neutrino oscillation is summarized, and then the results of oscillation experiments, including the most recent results, are discussed. The possibility that neutrinos are their own antiparticles is examined. What we have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-07-14 Boris Kayser

The evidence for the existence of dark matter in the universe is reviewed. A general picture emerges, where both baryonic and non-baryonic dark matter is needed to explain current observations. In particular, a wealth of observational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 L. Bergstrom

Partial Split Supersymmetry with bilinear R-parity violation allows to reproduce all neutrino mass and mixing parameters. The viable dark matter candidate in this model is the gravitino. We study the hypothesis that both possibilities are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-27 Marco Aurelio Diaz , Sebastian Garcia Saenz , Benjamin Koch

After the introduction to the subject, we review the Machian relations involving the different kinds of energy densities in the Universe. By suposing that dark-matter is composed by Neutrino's massive energy, we hint that the Neutrino's…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcelo Samuel Berman , Fernando de Mello Gomide

The definitions of classical and quantum singularities in general relativity are reviewed. The occurence of quantum mechanical singularities in certain spherically symmetric and cylindrically symmetric (including infinite line…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Konkowski , T. M. Helliwell , C. Wieland

We argue that the evidence for neutrino mass is quite compelling. This mass raises a number of questions, which we enumerate, about neutrinos. Then we focus on one of these questions---the issue of the possible neutrino mass spectra. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Kayser

In the last years we have learnt a lot about neutrino masses and mixings. Neutrinos are not all massless but their masses are very small. Probably masses are small because neutrinos are Majorana particles with masses inversely proportional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-29 Guido Altarelli

From a mathematical point of view velocities can be larger than c. It has been shown that Lorentz transformations are easily extended in Minkowski space to address velocities beyond the speed of light. Energy and momentum conservation fixes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Giani

Positive evidence for neutrino oscillations is mounting from the solar and atmospheric neutrino anomalies and the LSND experiment. Accordingly, the neutrino mass differences appear to lie in the sub-eV range and at least some of the mixing…

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

The unity of the structure of matter fields with flavor symmetry laws involves that the left-handed neutrino in the field of emission can be converted into a right-handed one and vice versa. These transitions together with classical…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Rasulkhozha S. Sharafiddinov

There is a puzzling contradiction: direct observations favor a low-mass density universe, but the only model which fits universe structure over more than three orders of magnitude in distance scale has a mix of hot (neutrino) and cold dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 David O. Caldwell

The quantum theory of spin light (electromagnetic radiation emitted by a Dirac massive neutrino propagating in dense matter due to the weak interaction of a neutrino with background fermions) is developed. In contrast to the Cherenkov…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. E. Lobanov

The classical model of spinning particle is analyzed in details in two versions - with single spinor and two spinors put on the trajectory. Equations of motion of the first version are easily solvable. The system with two spinors becomes…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Cezary J. Walczyk , Zbigniew Hasiewicz

Cosmological arguments proving that the universe is dominated by invisible non-baryonic matter are reviewed. Possible physical candidates for dark matter particles are discussed. A particular attention is paid to non-compensated remnants of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. D. Dolgov

Supersymmetry offers a cold dark matter candidate, provided that lepton number is {\em not violated by an odd number of units}. On the other hand, lepton number violation by even (two) units gives us an attractive mechanism of neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya , Soumitra SenGupta , Raghavendra Srikanth

Dark matter is presumably made of some new, exotic particle that appears in extensions of the Standard Model. After giving a brief overview of some popular candidates, I discuss in more detail the most appealing case of the supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Leszek Roszkowski

It is shown that various versions of the neutrino mixing hypothesis are in a contradiction with generally accepted facts and principles.There is also presented the possible alternative formulation of the neutrino oscillation theory and it…

General Physics · Physics 2008-03-03 Viliam Pazma , Julius Vanko

We emphasize that a specific aspect of quantum gravity is the absence of a super-selection rule that prevents a linear superposition of different gravitational charges. As an immediate consequence, we obtain a tiny, but observable,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Z. Adunas , E. Rodriguez-Milla , D. V. Ahluwalia