Physics
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Dec 2002
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THEORETICAL PHYSICS: MRST 2002: A Tribute to George Leibbrandt. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 646, pp. 15-33 (2002).
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Particle-Theory And Field-Theory Models Of The Early Universe, Background Radiations, Dark Matter
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The most recent results from the Boomerang, Maxima, DASI, CBI and VSA CMB experiments significantly increase the case for accelerated expansion in the early universe (the inflationary paradigm) and at the current epoch (dark energy dominance). This is especially so when combined with data on high redshift supernovae (SN1) and large scale structure (LSS), encoding information from local cluster abundances, galaxy clustering, and gravitational lensing. There are ``7 pillars of Inflation'' that can be shown with the CMB probe, and at least 5, and possibly 6, of these have already been demonstrated in the CMB data: (1) the effects of a large scale gravitational potential, demonstrated with COBE/DMR in 1992-96 (2) acoustic peaks/dips in the angular power spectrum of the radiation, which tell about the geometry of the Universe, with the large first peak convincingly shown with Boomerang and Maxima data in 2000, a multiple peak/dip pattern shown in data from Boomerang and DASI (2nd, 3rd peaks, first and 2nd dips in 2001) and from CBI (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th peaks, 3rd, 4th dips at 1-sigma in 2002) (3) damping due to shear viscosity and the width of the region over which hydrogen recombination occurred when the universe was 400000 years old (CBI 2002) (4) the primary anisotropies should have a Gaussian distribution (be maximally random) in almost all inflationary models, the best data on this coming from Boomerang; (5) secondary anisotropies associated with nonlinear phenomena subsequent to 400000 years, which must be there and may have been detected by CBI and another experiment, BIMA. Showing the 5 ``pillars'' involves detailed confrontation of the experimental data with theory; e.g., (5) compares the CBI data with predictions from two of the largest cosmological hydrodynamics simulations ever done. DASI, Boomerang and CBI in 2002, AMiBA in 2003, and many other experiments have the sensitivity to demonstrate the next pillar, (6) polarization, which must be there at the ~ 7% level. A broad-band DASI detection consistent with inflation models was just reported. A 7th pillar, anisotropies induced by gravity wave quantum noise, could be too small to detect. A minimal inflation parameter set, {ωb, ωcdm, Ωtot, ΩQ, wQ, ns, τC, σ8}, is used to illustrate the power of the current data. After marginalizing over the other cosmic and experimental variables, we find the current CMB+LSS+SN1 data give Ωtot = 1.00-.03+.07, consistent with (non-baroque) inflation theory. Restricting to Ωtot = 1, we find a nearly scale invariant spectrum, ns = 0.97-.05+.06. The CDM density, ωcdm = Ωcdmh2 = .12-.01+.01, and baryon density, ωb ≡ Ωbh2 = .022-.002+.003, are in the expected range. (The Big Bang nucleosynthesis estimate is 0.019 +/- 0.002.) Substantial dark (unclustered) energy is inferred, ΩQ ~ 0.68 +/- 0.05, and CMB+LSS ΩQ values are compatible with the independent SN1 estimates. The dark energy equation of state, crudely parameterized by a quintessence-field pressure-to-density ratio wQ, is not well determined by CMB+LSS (wQ < -0.4 at 95% CL), but when combined with SN1 the resulting wQ < -0.7 limit is quite consistent with the wQ=-1 cosmological constant case.
Bond Richard J.
Contaldi Carlo
Mason Brian
Myers Steve
Pearson Tim
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