Free Meson Seminars

Equivalent Neutrinos and Dark Radiation

by Dr Basudeb Dasgupta (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)

Asia/Kolkata
AG69 (Colaba Campus)

AG69

Colaba Campus

Description
In this talk, I will explain how the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to the presence of neutrinos and dark radiation, and how minor changes, e.g., an interaction via a new gauge field, can "hide" these particles. I will show that, quite remarkably, this also ameliorates long-standing problems in structure-formation at galactic scales.