Julien Lesgourgues – Cosmology won’t measure individual neutrino mass states.

Julien tells us about the cosmological effects of different neutrino mass states (i.e. the same sum of masses, but different masses for each individual neutrino – e.g. “normal” vs “inverted”).

There are effects, but they’re all very small and not even the best future experiments will distinguish them.

Non-standard model neutrinos would still have interesting effects, but it seems that cosmology’s insight on the SM ones will be limited to the sum of the masses.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03354
Julien: https://lesgourg.github.io/

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