Cosmology seminar: Rupert Allison

Rupert Allison is a PhD student in Oxford

Cosmological neutrino mass detection in the next five years

Future cosmological measurements should enable the sum of neutrino masses to be determined indirectly through their effects on the expansion rate of the Universe and the clustering of matter. I will discuss the cosmological effects of neutrinos and how they appear in CMB and large-scale structure observables. I will outline how the mass measurement may be reached, step-wise, using data collected during the coming decade. Finally, I will explore the dependence of the mass constraint on experimental details and examine degeneracies with other cosmological parameters.

Organizer

Benjamin Racine
Published Oct. 21, 2015 3:43 PM - Last modified Nov. 27, 2015 11:06 AM