COSMO In the literature: open

Cosmological measurement of the neutrino mass sum to 0.015 eV

In plain words

Cosmology can weigh neutrinos because heavier neutrinos smooth out the clumping of matter. The task is to measure the total mass with cosmological data, not just bound it.

Precise statement

Measure sum $m_\nu$ with uncertainty $\sigma \le 0.015\,\mathrm{eV}$ from CMB lensing, galaxy clustering and BAO, with the reionization optical depth $\tau$ measured independently to $\sigma(\tau) \sim 0.002$. An answer is a value that also discriminates normal from inverted ordering.

What would settle it

Simons Observatory and LiteBIRD-era CMB lensing and large-scale polarization combined with final DESI and Euclid.

Related problems

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