تقرير
Comment on 'Strong Evidence for the Normal Neutrino Hierarchy'
العنوان: | Comment on 'Strong Evidence for the Normal Neutrino Hierarchy' |
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المؤلفون: | Schwetz, T., Freese, K., Gerbino, M., Giusarma, E., Hannestad, S., Lattanzi, M., Mena, O., Vagnozzi, S. |
سنة النشر: | 2017 |
المجموعة: | Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
الوصف: | In the preprint arxiv:1703.03425 "strong evidence" for the normal neutrino mass ordering is claimed. The authors obtain Bayesian odds of 42:1 in favour of the normal ordering. Their conclusion is based on adopting a flat logarithmic prior for the three neutrino masses. Such an assumption favours a hierarchical spectrum for the masses, which is much easier to accommodate for the normal mass ordering, and hence their prior assumption makes the inverted ordering much less likely a priori. We argue that the claimed "evidence" for normal ordering is almost entirely driven by the adopted prior and not due to the data itself. Comment: 2 pages, no figures, comment on arXiv:1703.03425 |
نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04585 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.1703.04585 |
قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
الوصف غير متاح. |