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Evidence for Massive Neutrinos from Cosmic Microwave Background and Lensing Observations

BATTYE, RICHARD; MOSS, ADAM

Authors

RICHARD BATTYE

ADAM MOSS ADAM.MOSS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor



Abstract

We discuss whether massive neutrinos (either active or sterile) can reconcile some of the tensions within cosmological data that have been brought into focus by the recently released Planck data. We point out that a discrepancy is present when comparing the primary CMB and lensing measurements both from the CMB and galaxy lensing data using CFHTLenS, similar to that which arises when comparing CMB measurements and SZ cluster counts. A consistent picture emerges and including a prior for the cluster constraints and BAOs we find that for an active neutrino model with three degenerate neutrinos, ∑mν=(0.320±0.081)  eV, whereas for a sterile neutrino, in addition to 3 neutrinos with a standard hierarchy and ∑mν=0.06  eV, meffν,sterile=(0.450±0.124)  eV and ΔNeff=0.45±0.23. In both cases there is a significant detection of modification to the neutrino sector from the standard model and in the case of the sterile neutrino it is possible to reconcile the BAO and local H0 measurements. However, a caveat to our result is some internal tension between the CMB and lensing and cluster observations, and the masses are in excess of those estimated from the shape of the matter power spectrum from galaxy surveys.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 5, 2014
Online Publication Date Feb 6, 2014
Publication Date Feb 7, 2014
Deposit Date Sep 21, 2017
Journal Physical Review Letters
Print ISSN 0031-9007
Electronic ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 112
Issue 5
Article Number 051303
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.051303
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1114179
Publisher URL https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.051303
PMID 00033195