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宇宙中微子背景能检验哥白尼原理吗?

Can the Copernican principle be tested by cosmic neutrino background?

Junji Jia, Hongbao Zhang

摘要:

哥白尼原理指出,我们在宇宙中没有占据任何特殊的位置,在现代宇宙学中通常被视为理所当然。然而,最近的超新星观测数据表明,我们可能生活在宇宙的低密度中心,这使得哥白尼原理受到挑战。因此,通过宇宙学观测来检验哥白尼原理就变得迫切而重要。考虑到宇宙中微子与宇宙光子不同,不同能量的宇宙中微子来自不同的地方,沿着不同的世界线到达我们这里,我们在这里提出宇宙中微子本底作为哥白尼原理的一个检验。结果表明,从理论上看,宇宙中微子背景可以让一个确定哥白尼原理是否有效,但要实现这样的观察,更大的中微子探测器是必要的。

英文摘要:

The Copernican principle, stating that we do not occupy any special place in our universe, is usually taken for granted in modern cosmology. However recent observational data of supernova indicate that we may live in the under-dense center of our universe, which makes the Copernican principle challenged. It thus becomes urgent and important to test the Copernican principle via cosmological observations. Taking into account that unlike the cosmic photons, the cosmic neutrinos of different energies come from the different places to us along the different worldlines, we here propose cosmic neutrino background as a test of the Copernican principle. It is shown that from the theoretical perspective cosmic neutrino background can allow one to determine whether the Copernican principle is valid or not, but to implement such an observation the larger neutrino detectors are called for.

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