期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/08/020
关键词
cosmology of theories beyond the SM; particle physics - cosmology connection; cosmological neutrinos; cosmological parameters from CMBR
资金
- Government of Canada through Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant
Cosmological observations are becoming increasingly sensitive to the effects of light particles in the form of dark radiation (DR) at the time of recombination. The conventional observable of effective neutrino number, N-eff, is insufficient for probing generic, interacting models of DR. In this work, we perform likelihood analyses which allow both free-streaming effective neutrinos (parametrized by N-eff) and interacting effective neutrinos (parametrized by N-fld). We motivate an alternative parametrization of DR in terms of N-tot (total effective number of neutrinos) and f(fs) (the fraction of effective neutrinos which are free-streaming), which is less degenerate than using Neff and Nfld. Using the Planck 2015 likelihoods in conjunction with measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), we find constraints on the total amount of beyond the Standard Model effective neutrinos (both free streaming and interacting) of Delta N-tot < 0.39 at 2 sigma. In addition, we consider the possibility that this scenario alleviates the tensions between early-time and late-time cosmological observations, in particular the measurements of sigma 8 (the amplitude of matter power fluctuations at 8h(-1) Mpc), finding a mild preference for interactions among light species. We further forecast the sensitivities of a variety of future experiments, including Advanced ACTPol (a representative CMB Stage-III experiment), CMB Stage-IV, and the Euclid satellite. This study is relevant for probing non-standard neutrino physics as well as a wide variety of new particle physics models beyond the Standard Model that involve dark radiation.
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