Abstract: Cosmology is well suited to study the effects of long range interactions due to the large densities in the early Universe. In this talk, I will explore how the energy density and equation of state of a fermion system diverge from the commonly assumed ideal gas form under the presence of scalar long range interactions with a range much smaller than cosmological scales. In this scenario, "small"-scale physics can impact our largest-scale observations. As a benchmark, I will apply the formalism to self-interacting neutrinos, performing an analysis to present and future cosmological data. I will explore how this fully removes the cosmological neutrino mass bound, opening the possibility for a laboratory neutrino mass detection in the near future. I will also discuss an interesting complementarity between neutrino laboratory experiments and the future EUCLID survey.
Seminar Speaker: Ivan Esteban, Ohio State
Host: André de Gouvea
Meeting Details:
Monday, April 19, 2021 at 4:00pm (Central Time)
Zoom info:
Please email samantha.westlake@northwestern.edu to get the Zoom meeting link.
Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, HEP