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Concatenation of Scales Below 1 eV

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There are (at least) four numbers of physical and cosmological significance, whose inferred values, when expressed in mass units, cluster in a window below 1 eV. There are: the neutrino mass, the neutrino chemical potential, the cosmological constant, and the size of two extra dimensions (if the fundamental scale of gravity is 1–10 TeV). In this note, we imagine ways in which these four numbers could all be connected.

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Chodos, A. Concatenation of Scales Below 1 eV. Foundations of Physics 30, 567–576 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003620928935

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