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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 (TRHO(MeV)T_{\rm RH}\sim\mathcal{O}({\rm MeV})) 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 TRH>4.1T_{\rm RH}>4.1 MeV is obtained from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, while TRH>4.3T_{\rm RH}>4.3 MeV from Planck data for very light (mi=0.06\sum m_i = 0.06 eV) neutrinos. If neutrino masses are allowed to vary, Planck data yield TRH>4.7T_{\rm RH}>4.7 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