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Non-linear description of massive neutrinos in the framework of large-scale structure formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2016

Hélène Dupuy*
Affiliation:
Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA, IPhT, URA 2306 du CNRS, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095 du CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 98 bis bd Arago, 75014 Paris, France email: helene.dupuy@cea.fr; dupuy@iap.fr
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Abstract

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There is now no doubt that neutrinos are massive particles fully involved in the non-linear growth of the large-scale structure of the universe. A problem is that they are particularly difficult to include in cosmological models because the equations describing their behavior in the non-linear regime are cumbersome and difficult to handle. In this manuscript I present a new method allowing to deal with massive neutrinos in a very simple way, based on basic conservation laws. This method is still valid in the non-linear regime. The key idea is to describe neutrinos as a collection of single-flow fluids instead of seeing them as a single hot multi-flow fluid. In this framework, the time evolution of neutrinos is encoded in fluid equations describing macroscopic fields, just as what is done for cold dark matter. Although valid up to shell-crossing only, this approach is a further step towards a fully non-linear treatment of the dynamical evolution of neutrinos in the framework of large-scale structure growth.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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