English

Analytic expressions for the background evolution of massive neutrinos and dark matter particles

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-10-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We provide exact analytic expressions for the density, pressure, average number density and pseudo-pressure for massive neutrinos and generic dark matter particles, both fermions and bosons. We then focus on massive neutrinos and we compare our analytic expressions with the numerical implementation in the CLASS Boltzmann code. We find that our modifications including the exact analytic expressions are in agreement to better than 104%10^{-4}\% with the default CLASS implementation in the estimation of the CMB power spectrum; our modifications do not have an impact on the performance of the code. We also provide several specific limits of our expressions at the relativistic regime, but also at late times for the neutrino equation of state.

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@article{arxiv.1906.03160,
  title  = {Analytic expressions for the background evolution of massive neutrinos and dark matter particles},
  author = {Rubén Arjona and Wilmar Cardona and Savvas Nesseris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.03160},
  year   = {2019}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures, changes match published version