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A current problem within the {\Lambda}CDM framework is the tension between late and early time measurements of the Hubble parameter today, H0. We entertain the possibility that dark energy modeled as multiple interacting axion-like-particle…

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We study the fit of cosmological models with two additional free parameters $N_\mathrm{eff}$ and $\xi_e$ in addition to the parameters of $\Lambda$CDM. We introduce extra radiation components such as hot axions or sterile neutrinos in…

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The current observational tensions in the standard cosmological model have reinforced the research on dynamical dark energy, in particular on models with non-gravitational interaction between the dark components. Analyses of late-time…

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Cosmological observations are becoming increasingly sensitive to the effects of light particles in the form of dark radiation (DR) at the time of recombination. The conventional observable of effective neutrino number, $N_{\rm eff}$, is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Christopher Brust , Yanou Cui , Kris Sigurdson

We present calculations showing that upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments will have the power to improve on current constraints on neutrino masses and provide new limits on neutrino degeneracy parameters. The latter could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 M. Shimon , N. J. Miller , C. T. Kishimoto , C. J. Smith , G. M. Fuller , B. G. Keating

Recently, the Planck collaboration has released the first cosmological papers providing the high resolution, full sky, maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies. It is crucial to understand that whether the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-12 Jun-Qing Xia

We discuss the synergy of the cosmic shear and CMB lensing experiments to simultaneously constrain the neutrino mass and dark energy properties. Taking fully account of the CMB lensing, cosmic shear, CMB anisotropies, and their cross…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Toshiya Namikawa , Shun Saito , Atsushi Taruya

We evaluate the ability of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to measure the power spectrum of large scale structure using quadratic estimators of the weak lensing deflection field. We calculate the sensitivity of upcoming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Julien Lesgourgues , Laurence Perotto , Sergio Pastor , Michel Piat

The Hubble Tension is a well-known issue in modern cosmology that refers to the apparent disagreement in inferences of the Hubble constant $H_0$ as found through low-redshift observations and those derived from the $\Lambda$CDM model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Joshua Ange , Joel Meyers

Standard cosmology predicts that prior to matter-radiation equality about 41% of the energy density was in free-streaming neutrinos. In many beyond Standard Model scenarios, however, the amount and free-streaming nature of this component is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Nikita Blinov , Gustavo Marques-Tavares

Neutrinos are expected to freestream (i.e. not interact with anything) since they decouple in the early Universe at a temperature $T\sim 2~{\rm MeV}$. However, there are many relevant particle physics scenarios that can make neutrinos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Petter Taule , Miguel Escudero , Mathias Garny

New measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the Planck mission have greatly increased our knowledge about the Universe. Dark radiation, a weakly interacting component of radiation, is one of the important ingredients in our…

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We consider a class of models involving interactions between ultra-light scalar dark matter and Standard Model neutrinos. Such couplings modify the neutrino mass splittings and mixing angles to include additional components that vary in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Asher Berlin

Despite the astonishing success of standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, there is mounting evidence for a tension with observations at small and intermediate scales. We introduce a simple model where both cold dark matter (DM) and sterile…

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The latest Planck results reconfirm the existence of a slight but chronic tension between the best-fit Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and low-redshift observables: power seems to be consistently lacking in the late universe across a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Martin Kunz , Savvas Nesseris , Ignacy Sawicki

Planned CMB Stage IV experiments have the potential to measure the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom in the early Universe, $N_\text{eff}$, with percent-level accuracy. This probes new thermalized light particles and also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-25 Kevork N. Abazajian , Julian Heeck

Interacting dark energy models are widely renowned for giving an explanation to the cosmic coincidence problem as well as several observational issues. According to the recent observational data, and so far we are concerned with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-07 Supriya Pan , Weiqiang Yang , Andronikos Paliathanasis

The observed discrepancy of the Hubble parameter measurements in the local universe with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data may indicate a new physics. It is vital to test the alternative models that reconcile the Hubble tension…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-03 Hossein Moshafi , Shant Baghram , Nima Khosravi

We investigate how much the constraints on the neutrino properties can be improved by combining the CMB, the photometric and spectroscopic galaxy redshift surveys which include the CMB lensing, galaxy lensing tomography, galaxy clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yoshitaka Takeuchi , Kenji Kadota

Hubble tension can be alleviated by altering either early- or late-time $\Lambda$CDM. With only one of these effects introduced, early dark energy remains the only solution capable of reducing the tension to the $3\sigma$ level or below. In…

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