Sterile neutrinos help reconcile the observational results of primordial gravitational waves from Planck and BICEP2

We show that involving a sterile neutrino species in the ΛCDM+r model can help relieve the tension about the tensor-to-scalar ratio r between the Planck temperature data and the BICEP2 B-mode polarization data. Such a model is called the ΛCDM+r+νs model in this paper. Compared to the ΛCDM+r model, t...

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Main Authors: Jing-Fei Zhang, Yun-He Li, Xin Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269314008831