2004/11/03 by Ofer Lahav, Oystein Elgaroy, Øystein Elgarøy
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Neutrino Physics Research #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2005.01.142
published as Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.143:439-446,2005 · 8 pages, 6 figures; invited review in 'Neutrino 2004', College de France, Paris
arxiv created 2004/11/03 · openalex publication_date 2005/02/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
While it is established that the effect of neutrinos on the evolution of cosmic structure is small, the upper limits derived from large-scale structure could help significantly to constrain the absolute scale of the neutrino masses. Current results from cosmology set an upper limit on the sum of the neutrino masses of ~ 1 eV, somewhat depending on the data sets used in the analyses and assumed priors on cosmological parameters. In this review we discuss the effects of neutrinos on large-scale structure which make these limits obtainable. We show the impact of neutrino masses on the matter power spectrum, the cosmic microwave background and the clustering amplitude. A summary of derived cosmological neutrino mass upper limits is given, and we discuss future methods which will improve the mass upper limits by an order of magnitude.