Mass-varying neutrino in light of cosmic microwave background and weak lensing

Abstract

We aim to constrain mass-varying neutrino models using large scale structure observations and produce forecast for the Euclid survey. We investigate two models with different scalar field potential and both positive and negative coupling parameters β. These parameters correspond to growing or decreasing neutrino mass, respectively. We explore couplings up to |β|<5. In the case of the exponential potential, we find an upper limit on ${\Omega }_{\nu }{h}^2$<0.004 at 2-$\sigma$ level. In the case of the inverse power law potential the null coupling can be excluded with more than 2-σsignificance; the limits on the coupling are β>3 for the growing neutrino mass and β<-1.5 for the decreasing mass case. This is a clear sign for a preference of higher couplings. When including a prior on the present neutrino mass the upper limit on the coupling becomes |β|<3 at 2-$\sigma$ level for the exponential potential. Finally, we present a Fisher forecast using the tomographic weak lensing from an Euclid-like experiment and we also consider the combination with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarisation spectra from a Planck-like mission. If considered alone, lensing data is more efficient in constraining ${\Omega }_{\nu }$ with respect to CMB data alone. There is, however, a strong degeneracy in the β-${\Omega }_{\nu }{h}^2$ plane. When the two data sets are combined, the latter degeneracy remains, but the errors are reduced by a factor ~2 for both parameters.

5 pages, 6 figures. Now published in A&A 500, 657-665 (2009)

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