Bounds on very low reheating scenarios after Planck
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2015-12-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We consider the case of very low reheating scenarios () with a better calculation of the production of the relic neutrino background (with three-flavor oscillations). At 95% confidence level, a lower bound on the reheating temperature MeV is obtained from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, while MeV from Planck data for very light ( eV) neutrinos. If neutrino masses are allowed to vary, Planck data yield MeV, the most stringent bound on the reheating temperature to date. Neutrino masses as large as 1 eV are possible for very low reheating temperatures.
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@article{arxiv.1511.00672,
title = {Bounds on very low reheating scenarios after Planck},
author = {P. F. de Salas and M. Lattanzi and G. Mangano and G. Miele and S. Pastor and O. Pisanti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00672},
year = {2015}
}
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9 pages, 9 figures