Are Most Particles Gravitons?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-05-17 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
The number of baryons in the observable universe is of the order of , as is the number of electrons. The number of photons is about nine orders of magnitude greater, , as is the estimated number of neutrinos. However, the number of gravitons could be more than twenty orders of magnitude larger yet, of the order of , where is the tensor-to-scalar ratio for quantum fluctuations produced by inflation, which could be as high as .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.04351,
title = {Are Most Particles Gravitons?},
author = {Don N. Page},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.04351},
year = {2016}
}