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Viability of the matter bounce scenario in Loop Quantum Cosmology from BICEP2 last data

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-08-14 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

The CMB map provided by the Planck project constrains the value of the ratio of tensor-to-scalar perturbations, namely rr, to be smaller than 0.110.11 (95% CL). This bound rules out the simplest models of inflation. However, recent data from BICEP2 is in strong tension with this constrain, as it finds a value r=0.200.05+0.07r=0.20^{+0.07}_{-0.05} with r=0r=0 disfavored at 7.0σ7.0 \sigma, which allows these simplest inflationary models to survive. The remarkable fact is that, even though the BICEP2 experiment was conceived to search for evidence of inflation, its experimental data matches correctly theoretical results coming from the matter bounce scenario (the alternative model to the inflationary paradigm). More precisely, most bouncing cosmologies do not pass Planck's constrains due to the smallness of the value of the tensor/scalar ratio r0.11r\leq 0.11, but with new BICEP2 data some of them fit well with experimental data. This is the case with the matter bounce scenario in the teleparallel version of Loop Quantum Cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.1403.6396,
  title  = {Viability of the matter bounce scenario in Loop Quantum Cosmology from BICEP2 last data},
  author = {Jaume de Haro and Jaume Amorós},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.6396},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

3 figures. New section added to further justify power spectrum computations. Numerical results more thoroughly explained