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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/03/055
Keywords
big bang nucleosynthesis; cosmological parameters from CMBR; CMBR theory
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- PRIN Fisica Astroparticellare Teorica [2012CP-PYP7_009, CUP (INFN) I18C13000080001]
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We derive new constraints on the neutron lifetime based on the recent Planck 2015 observations of temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB. Under the assumption of standard Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, we show that Planck data constrains the neutron lifetime to tau(n) = (907 +/- 69) [s] at 68% c.l.. Moreover, by including the direct measurements of primordial Helium abundance of Aver et al. (2015) and Izotov et al. (2014), we show that cosmological data provide the stringent constraints tau(n) = (875 +/- 19) [s] and tau(n) = (921 +/- 11) [s] respectively. The latter appears to be in tension with neutron lifetime value quoted by the Particle Data Group (tau(n) = (880.3 +/- 1.1) [s]). Future CMB surveys as COrE+, in combination with a weak lensing survey as EUCLID, could constrain the neutron lifetime up to a similar to 6 [s] precision.
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