A First Detection of the Acoustic Ocillation Phase Shift Expected from the Cosmic Neutrino Background

11/10/2015
Jim Rich
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The unimpeded relativistic propagation of cosmological neutrinos prior to recombination of the baryon-photon plasma alters gravitational potentials and therefore the details of the time-dependent gravitational driving of acoustic oscillations. We report here a first detection of the resulting shifts in the temporal phase of the oscillations, which we infer from their signature in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature power spectrum.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07863

(PhysRevLett.115.091301)

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