Neutrino Mass Constraints from kSZ Tomography

2025/02/07 by Tishue, Avery J., Hotinli, Selim C., Adshead, Peter +2 · 1 citation
#Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.05260

Abstract

We forecast neutrino mass constraints using Stage IV CMB and large-scale structure surveys, focusing on kSZ tomography as an independent probe of the growth of cosmic structure. We take into account several realistic factors, including the kSZ optical depth degeneracy. Our baseline setup consists of CMB S4 temperature and polarization (but not lensing) information, DESI BAO, the LSST galaxy power spectrum, and a Planck like τ prior, yielding σ(∑ m_ν) = 32 \rmmeV. Adding kSZ tomography improves this by a few percent, while a kSZ optical depth prior can push this improvement to over 15%, giving σ(∑ m_ν) = 27 \rmmeV. When CMB lensing is included in the baseline setup, kSZ does not further improve neutrino mass constraints. We find promising prospects for a scenario combining futuristic CMB and galaxy surveys.

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