Neutrino Flight Times in Cosmology

Leo Stodolsky

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Neutrino Flight Times in Cosmology

Leo Stodolsky

Astrophysics · Submitted 10 Nov 1999

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The authors' main claim If neutrinos have a small but non-zero mass, time-of-flight effects for neutrino bursts from distant sources can yield information on the large-scale geometry of the universe, the effects being proportional to the integral over time of the cosmological expansion parameter.

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If neutrinos have a small but non-zero mass, time-of-flight effects for neutrino bursts from distant sources can yield information on the large-scale geometry of the universe, the effects being proportional to the integral over time of the cosmological expansion parameter. In principle absolute physical determinations of the Hubble constant and the acceleration parameter are possible. Practical realization of these possibilities would depend on neutrino masses being in a favorable range and the future development of very large detectors.

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s2	Practical realization of these possibilities would depend on neutrino masses being in a favorable range and the future development of very large detectors.	limitation 0.79	0.04	0.13	hedged possibility 0.85

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If neutrinos have a small but non-zero mass, time-of-flight effects for neutrino bursts from distant sources can yield information on the large-scale geometry of the universe, the effects being proportional to the integral over time of the cosmological expansion parameter. In principle absolute physical determinations of the Hubble constant and the acceleration parameter are possible. Practical realization of these possibilities would depend on neutrino masses being in a favorable range and the future development of very large detectors.

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The time delay of a neutrino emitted at the moment of neutron star coalescence at redshift $z$, relative to the gravitational wave signal of coalescence, is given by [ref] [equation] where $m_ν$ is the mass of the neutrino mass eigenstate under consideration and $E_ν(z')=(1+z') E_ν$, with $E_ν$ being the neutrino energy at Earth.

Prospects for Neutrino Observation and Mass Measurement from Binary Neutron Star Mergers · Background mitigation · 0.86

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Despite the fact that some proposals of new distance indicators with ultra-relativistic particles emitted from the source have been recently investigated from the theoretical point of view [ref] , most of the cosmological distance tools involve massless particles which travel from the source to the observer's laboratory.

Relations between physical observables: what is better? · Introduction · 0.92
The idea of using time delays between UR particles as a cosmological probe is more recent [ref] (see also the short review [ref] ).

On the time delay between ultra-relativistic particles · Introduction · 0.98

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