LEADER 03407nam 22005415 450 001 996418168503316 005 20200813122346.0 010 $a3-030-53502-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-53502-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000011384377 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-53502-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6302945 035 $a(PPN)250215500 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011384377 100 $a20200813d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWeigh Them All!$b[electronic resource] $eCosmological Searches for the Neutrino Mass Scale and Mass Ordering /$fby Sunny Vagnozzi 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (XXXI, 195 p. 27 illus., 25 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053 311 $a3-030-53501-0 327 $aIntroduction -- Standard Models and What Lies Beyond -- Overview of Physical Cosmology -- Massive Neutrinos and How to Search for them with Cosmological Observations -- A Brief Interlude Statistical Methods in Cosmology -- Results and discussion of included papers -- Summary and Outlook. 330 $aThe three neutrinos are ghostly elementary particles that exist all across the Universe. Though every second billions of them fly through us, they are extremely hard to detect. We used to think they had no mass, but recently discovered that in fact they have a tiny mass. The quest for the neutrino mass scale and mass ordering (specifying how the three masses are distributed) is an extremely exciting one, and will open the door towards new physics operating at energy scales we can only ever dream of reaching on Earth. This thesis explores the use of measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (the oldest light reaching us, a snapshot of the infant Universe) and maps of millions of galaxies to go after the neutrino mass scale and mass ordering. Neutrinos might teach us something about the mysterious dark energy powering the accelerated expansion of the Universe, or about cosmic inflation, which seeded the initial conditions for the Universe. Though extremely baffling, neutrinos are also an exceptionally exciting area of research, and cosmological observations promise to reveal a great deal about these elusive particles in the coming years. 410 0$aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053 606 $aCosmology 606 $aElementary particles (Physics) 606 $aQuantum field theory 606 $aCosmology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22049 606 $aElementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P23029 615 0$aCosmology. 615 0$aElementary particles (Physics). 615 0$aQuantum field theory. 615 14$aCosmology. 615 24$aElementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory. 676 $a539.7215 700 $aVagnozzi$b Sunny$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0917418 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996418168503316 996 $aWeigh Them All$92057022 997 $aUNISA