Title : |
Dark neutrino interactions make gravitational waves blue |
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Speaker | : | Subhajit Ghosh, TIFR |
Date | : | March 13, 2018 |
Time | : | 11:30 AM |
Venue | : | Lecture Hall -II |
Abstract | : |
New interactions of neutrinos can stop them from free streaming in the early Universe even after the weak decoupling epoch. This results in the enhancement of \\changeR{the} primordial gravitational wave amplitude on small scales compared to the standard $\\Lambda$CDM prediction. We calculate the effect of dark matter neutrino interactions in CMB tensor $B$-modes spectrum. We show that the effect of new neutrino interactions generates a scale or $\\ell$ dependent imprint in the CMB $B$-modes power spectrum at $\\ell \\gtrsim 100$. In the event that primordial $B$-modes are detected by future experiments, a departure from scale invariance, with a blue spectrum, may not necessarily mean failure of simple inflationary models but instead may be a sign of non-standard interactions of relativistic particles. There is rich information hidden in the CMB $B$-modes spectrum beyond just the tensor to scalar ratio. |