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Gravitational Waves and the Cosmic Neutrino Background

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The Cosmic Neutrino Background (C\( \nu \)B) contains information from very early times which may help illuminate both the properties of the neutrino sector and the evolution of the universe. Unfortunately, the weakly interacting nature of neutrinos combined with the low temperature of the background today, makes the prospect for detection near impossible in the foreseeable future. Despite this, the dynamics of the C\( \nu \)B could have had significant effects on the evolution of the early universe. The prospect of gleaning indirect evidence of the C\( \nu \)B is to be explored in this chapter, through considering the possible implications for gravitational wave propagation. Given the dawn of the new era of gravitational wave astronomy, this is an exciting possibility.

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Barrie, N.D. (2018). Gravitational Waves and the Cosmic Neutrino Background. In: Cosmological Implications of Quantum Anomalies. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94715-0_5

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