Gravitational clustering of cosmic relic neutrinos in the Milky Way

Jue Zhang and Xin Zhang ()
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Jue Zhang: Peking University
Xin Zhang: College of Sciences, Northeastern University

Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract The standard model of cosmology predicts the existence of cosmic neutrino background in the present Universe. To detect cosmic relic neutrinos in the vicinity of the Earth, it is necessary to evaluate the gravitational clustering effects on relic neutrinos in the Milky Way. Here we introduce a reweighting technique in the N-one-body simulation method, so that a single simulation can yield neutrino density profiles for different neutrino masses and phase space distributions. In light of current experimental results that favor small neutrino masses, the neutrino number density contrast around the Earth is found to be almost proportional to the square of neutrino mass. The density contrast-mass relation and the reweighting technique are useful for studying the phenomenology associated with the future detection of the cosmic neutrino background.

Date: 2018
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