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Global fitting analysis on cosmological models after BICEP2

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-05-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Recently, BICEP2 collaboration has released their results on the measurements of the CMB polarizations. In the framework of the Λ\LambdaCDM with a power law form of the scalar primordial power spectrum, this new measurement on the B-mode puts a tight constraint on tensor/scalar ratio r=0.20.05+0.07 (1σ)r=0.2^{+0.07}_{-0.05}~(1\sigma), which however is in tension with the Planck limit, r<0.11r<0.11 (95% C.L.). In this paper, we consider various extensions of the Λ\LambdaCDM model by introducing extra cosmological parameters such as the equation state of dark energy ww, the curvature of the universe Ωk\Omega_k, the running of the scalar power spectrum index αs\alpha_s, the sum of the neutrino mass Σmν\Sigma m_{\nu}, the effective number of neutrinos NeffN_{eff}, the tensor power spectrum index ntn_{t}, then perform the global fit to the BICEP2, Planck and also the SN and BAO data. Our results show the cosmological parameters αs\alpha_s and ntn_t are highly and directly correlated with the tensor/scalar ratio rr. However indirectly the parameters Ωk\Omega_k and NeffN_{eff} are also correlated with rr. We will in this paper give the numerical values on the parameters introduced and show explicitly how the tension between the BICEP2 and Planck is effectively alleviated by the inclusion of the parameters Ωk\Omega_k, αs\alpha_s, NeffN_{eff} and ntn_{t} separately.

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@article{arxiv.1404.0238,
  title  = {Global fitting analysis on cosmological models after BICEP2},
  author = {Hong Li and Jun-Qing Xia and Xinmin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0238},
  year   = {2014}
}

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7 pages, 2 tables and 6 figures

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