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Title              :

Dark neutrino interactions make gravitational waves blue

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.

 

 

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