Weigh them all! : cosmological searches for the neutrino mass scale and mass ordering / Sunny Vagnozzi.
2020
QC793.5.N426
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Title
Weigh them all! : cosmological searches for the neutrino mass scale and mass ordering / Sunny Vagnozzi.
Author
Vagnozzi, Sunny.
ISBN
9783030535025 (electronic book)
3030535029 (electronic book)
3030535010
9783030535018
3030535029 (electronic book)
3030535010
9783030535018
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020.
Language
English
Description
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Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-53502-5 doi
10.1007/978-3-030-53
10.1007/978-3-030-53
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QC793.5.N426
Dewey Decimal Classification
539.7/215
Summary
The three neutrinos are ghostly elementary particles that exist all across the Universe. Though every second billions of them fly through us, they are extremely hard to detect. We used to think they had no mass, but recently discovered that in fact they have a tiny mass. The quest for the neutrino mass scale and mass ordering (specifying how the three masses are distributed) is an extremely exciting one, and will open the door towards new physics operating at energy scales we can only ever dream of reaching on Earth. This thesis explores the use of measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (the oldest light reaching us, a snapshot of the infant Universe) and maps of millions of galaxies to go after the neutrino mass scale and mass ordering. Neutrinos might teach us something about the mysterious dark energy powering the accelerated expansion of the Universe, or about cosmic inflation, which seeded the initial conditions for the Universe. Though extremely baffling, neutrinos are also an exceptionally exciting area of research, and cosmological observations promise to reveal a great deal about these elusive particles in the coming years.
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"Doctoral Thesis accepted by Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden."
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Standard Models and What Lies Beyond
Overview of Physical Cosmology
Massive Neutrinos and How to Search for them with Cosmological Observations
A Brief Interlude Statistical Methods in Cosmology
Results and discussion of included papers
Summary and Outlook.
Standard Models and What Lies Beyond
Overview of Physical Cosmology
Massive Neutrinos and How to Search for them with Cosmological Observations
A Brief Interlude Statistical Methods in Cosmology
Results and discussion of included papers
Summary and Outlook.