22–26 Jun 2026
Richard Roberts Auditorium
Europe/London timezone

Large-scale structure, neutrino mass and Newtonian Motion gauge

23 Jun 2026, 11:15
35m
Richard Roberts Auditorium

Richard Roberts Auditorium

13 Brook Hill, Sheffield S3 7HF

Speaker

Julien Lesgourgues (TTK, RWTH Aachen University)

Description

I will briefly review the currently confusing situation regarding cosmological bounds on the neutrino mass. In the future, there is a hope to clarify the situation by detecting the actual neutrino free-streaming effect in large-scale structures. In this regard, I will present a new method allowing to easily incorporate the scale-dependance of the growth factor induced by massive neutrinos (or potentially by non-standard dark matter) in analytical predictions for the matter power spectrum, without recurring to more complicated equations, but simply by playing with specific gauge transformations.

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