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- Title
Limits on brane-world and particle dark radiation from big bang nucleosynthesis and the CMB.
- Authors
Sasankan, N.; Gangopadhyay, Mayukh R.; Mathews, G. J.; Kusakabe, M.
- Abstract
The term dark radiation is used both to describe a noninteracting neutrino species and as a correction to the Friedmann Equation in the simplest five-dimensional (5D) RS-II brane-world cosmology. In this paper, we consider the constraints on both the meanings of dark radiation-based upon the newest results for light-element nuclear reaction rates, observed light-element abundances and the power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Adding dark radiation during big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) alters the Friedmann expansion rate causing the nuclear reactions to freeze out at a different temperature. This changes the final light element abundances at the end of BBN. Its influence on the CMB is to change the effective expansion rate at the surface of the last scattering. We find that the BBN constraint reduces the allowed range for both types of dark radiation at 10Mev to between and of the total background energy density at 10Mev. Combining this result with fits to the CMB power spectrum, produces different results for particle versus brane-world dark radiation. In the brane-world, the range decreases from to . Thus, we find that the ratio of dark radiation to the background total relativistic mass energy density is consistent with zero although there remains a very slight preference for a positive (rather than negative) contribution.
- Subjects
DARK matter; BIG bang theory; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS; NEUTRINO astrophysics; COSMIC abundances
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics E: Nuclear Physics, 2017, Vol 26, Issue 8, p-1
- ISSN
0218-3013
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0218301317410075