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Cosmic Neutrino Background Detection in Large-Neutrino-Mass Cosmologies
James Alvey, Miguel Escudero, Nashwan Sabti, Thomas Schwetz
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The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB) is a definite prediction of the standard cosmological model and its direct discovery would represent a milestone in cosmology and neutrino physics. In this work, we consider the capture of relic neutrinos on a tritium target as a possible way to detect the CNB, as aimed for by the PTOLEMY project. Crucial parameters for this measurement are the absolute neutrino mass m_ν and the local neutrino number density n_νˡᵒᶜ. Within the ΛCDM model, cosmology provides a stringent upper limit on the sum of neutrino masses of ∑m_ν < 0.12 eV, with further improvements expected soon from galaxy surveys by DESI and EUCLID. This makes the prospects for a CNB detection and a neutrino mass measurement in the laboratory very difficult. In this context, we consider a set of non-standard cosmological models that allow for large neutrino masses (m_ν ∼1 eV), potentially in reach of the KATRIN neutrino mass experiment or upcoming neutrinoless double-beta decay searches. We show that the CNB detection prospects could be much higher in some of these models compared to those in ΛCDM, and discuss the potential for such a detection to discriminate between cosmological scenarios. Moreover, we provide a simple rule to estimate the required values of energy resolution, exposure, and background rate for a PTOLEMY-like experiment to cover a certain region in the (m_ν, n_νˡᵒᶜ) parameter space. Alongside this paper, we publicly release a code to calculate the CNB sensitivity in a given cosmological model.
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