Anthropic predictions for neutrino masses

From: Saibal Mitra <smitra.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:41:43 +0200

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304536

Anthropic predictions for neutrino masses
Authors: Max Tegmark (Penn), Alexander Vilenkin (Tufts)
Comments: 4 pages. Color figs and links at this http URL

  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 ~1eV, neutrinos causing a non-negligible suppression of galaxy formation.
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