Speaker
Dr
Jasper Hasenkamp
(Hamburg U.)
Description
Current CMB observations could confirm an increase of the effective neutrino degrees of freedom at photon decoupling. We show that, if the gravitino problem is solved by a light axino, dark (decoupled) radiation emerges naturally after nucleosynthesis but before CMB times leading to a new upper bound on the reheating temperature < 10^10 GeV. In turn, successful thermal leptogenesis predicts such an increase. The LHC might endorse this opportunity. We identify several consistent cosmologies.
Primary author
Dr
Jasper Hasenkamp
(Hamburg U.)
