How robust are inflation model and dark matter constraints from cosmological data?

Details How robust are inflation model and dark matter constraints from cosmological data? How robust are inflation model and dark matter constraints from cosmological data?

2006-11-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611582v2

Phys.Rev.D75:023522,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 9 figures, references updated

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.75.023522

High-precision data from observation of the cosmic microwave background and the large scale structure of the universe provide very tight constraints on the effective parameters that describe cosmological inflation. Indeed, within a constrained class of LambdaCDM models, the simple lambda phi^4 chaotic inflation model already appears to be ruled out by cosmological data. In this paper, we compute constraints on inflationary parameters within a more general framework that includes other physically motivated parameters such as a nonzero neutrino mass. We find that a strong degeneracy between the tensor-to-scalar ratio r and the neutrino mass prevents lambda phi^4 from being excluded by present data. Reversing the argument, if lambda phi^4 is the correct model of inflation, it predicts a sum of neutrino masses at 0.3-0.5 eV, a range compatible with present experimental limits and within the reach of the next generation of neutrino mass measurements. We also discuss the associated constraints on the dark matter density, the dark energy equation of state, and spatial curvature, and show that the allowed regions are significantly altered. Importantly, we find an allowed range of 0.094 < Omega_c h^2 < 0.136 for the dark matter density, a factor of two larger than that reported in previous studies. This expanded parameter space may have implications for constraints on SUSY dark matter models.

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