Improved cosmological constraints on the neutrino mass and lifetime - Interactions Fondamentales, Astroparticules et Cosmologie
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Improved cosmological constraints on the neutrino mass and lifetime

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We present cosmological constraints on the sum of neutrino masses as a function of the neutrino lifetime, in a framework in which neutrinos decay into dark radiation after becoming non-relativistic. We find that in this regime the cosmic microwave background (CMB), baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) and (uncalibrated) luminosity distance to supernovae from the Pantheon catalog constrain the sum of neutrino masses ∑m$_{ν}$ to obey ∑m$_{ν}$< 0.42 eV at (95% C.L.). While the bound has improved significantly as compared to the limits on the same scenario from Planck 2015, it still represents a significant relaxation of the constraints as compared to the stable neutrino case. We show that most of the improvement can be traced to the more precise measurements of low-ℓ polarization data in Planck 2018, which leads to tighter constraints on τ$_{reio}$ (and thereby on A$_{s}$), breaking the degeneracy arising from the effect of (large) neutrino masses on the amplitude of the CMB power spectrum.
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hal-03520954 , version 1 (17-11-2023)

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Guillermo Franco Abellán, Zackaria Chacko, Abhish Dev, Peizhi Du, Vivian Poulin, et al.. Improved cosmological constraints on the neutrino mass and lifetime. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022, 08, pp.076. ⟨10.1007/JHEP08(2022)076⟩. ⟨hal-03520954⟩
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