Phys. Rev. D 71, 103523 (2005) [9 pages]

Anthropic predictions for neutrino masses

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Max Tegmark^1,2, Alexander Vilenkin³, and Levon Pogosian³
¹Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
²Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
³Institute of Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA

Received 1 May 2003; revised 14 March 2005; published 31 May 2005

It is argued that small values of the neutrino masses may be due to anthropic selection effects. If this is the case, then the combined mass of the three neutrino species is expected to be ∼1 eV, neutrinos causing a non-negligible suppression of galaxy formation.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.103523

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.71.103523

PACS:

98.80.Cq, 14.60.Pq

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Phys. Rev. D 71, 103523 (2005) [9 pages]

Anthropic predictions for neutrino masses