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DESI and other Dark Energy experiments in the era of neutrino mass measurements [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. High Energy Physics Division, 2014.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy
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pages 023-023 : digital, PDF file
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy. High Energy Physics Division, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Here we present Fisher matrix projections for future cosmological parameter measurements, including neutrino masses, Dark Energy, curvature, modified gravity, the inflationary perturbation spectrum, non-Gaussianity, and dark radiation. We focus on DESI and generally redshift surveys (BOSS, HETDEX, eBOSS, Euclid, and WFIRST), but also include CMB (Planck) and weak gravitational lensing (DES and LSST) constraints. The goal is to present a consistent set of projections, for concrete experiments, which are otherwise scattered throughout many papers and proposals. We include neutrino mass as a free parameter in most projections, as it will inevitably be relevant $-$ DESI and other experiments can measure the sum of neutrino masses to ~ 0.02 eV or better, while the minimum possible sum is 0.06 eV. We note that constraints on Dark Energy are significantly degraded by the presence of neutrino mass uncertainty, especially when using galaxy clustering only as a probe of the BAO distance scale (because this introduces additional uncertainty in the background evolution after the CMB epoch). Using broadband galaxy power becomes relatively more powerful, and bigger gains are achieved by combining lensing survey constraints with redshift survey constraints. Finally, we do not try to be especially innovative, e.g., with complex treatments of potential systematic errors $-$ these projections are intended as a straightforward baseline for comparison to more detailed analyses.
Report Numbers:
E 1.99:bnl--112100-2016-ja
bnl--112100-2016-ja
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Published through SciTech Connect.
05/19/2014.
"bnl--112100-2016-ja"
"KA2301020"
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2014 05 ISSN 1475-7516 AM
Andreu Font-Ribera; Patrick McDonald; Nick Mostek; Beth A. Reid; Hee-Jong Seo; Anže Slosar.
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SC00112704
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