Do WMAP data favor neutrino mass and a coupling between Cold Dark Matter and Dark Energy?

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Published 7 April 2009 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation G. La Vacca et al JCAP04(2009)007 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/04/007

1475-7516/2009/04/007

Abstract

Within the frame of cosmologies where Dark Energy (DE) is a self-interacting scalar field, we allow for a CDM-DE coupling and non-zero neutrino masses, simultaneously. In their 0-0 version, i.e. in the absence of coupling and neutrino mass, these cosmologies provide an excellent fit to WMAP, SNIa and deep galaxy sample spectra, at least as good as ΛCDM. When the new degrees of freedom are open, we find that CDM-DE coupling and significant neutrino masses (∼ 0.1 eV per ν species) are at least as likely as the 0-0 option and, in some cases, even statistically favoured. Results are obtained by using a Monte Carlo Markov Chain approach.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2009/04/007