Revealing the effects of curvature on the cosmological models

W Yang, W Giare, S Pan, E Di Valentino, A Melchiorri… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
In this paper, we consider the effects of adding curvature in extended cosmologies involving
a free-to-vary neutrino sector and different parametrizations of dark energy (DE). We make …

Cosmological bound on the QCD axion mass, redux

F D'Eramo, E Di Valentino, W Giare… - … of Cosmology and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We revisit the joint constraints in the mixed hot dark matter scenario in which both thermally
produced QCD axions and relic neutrinos are present. Upon recomputing the cosmological …

Health checkup test of the standard cosmological model in view of recent cosmic microwave background anisotropies experiments

E Di Valentino, W Giarè, A Melchiorri, J Silk - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We present an updated data-analysis comparison of the most recent observations of the
cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropies and polarization angular power …

Quantifying the global 'CMB tension' between the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Planck satellite in extended models of cosmology

E Di Valentino, W Giarè, A Melchiorri… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study the global agreement between the most recent observations of the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies angular power …

Two sides of the same coin: Sterile neutrinos and dark radiation, status and perspectives

M Archidiacono, S Gariazzo - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
The presence of light sterile neutrinos is one of the unanswered questions of particle
physics. The cosmological counterpart is represented by dark radiation, ie, any form of …

Towards a reliable calculation of relic radiation from primordial gravitational waves

W Giarè, M Forconi, E Di Valentino… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Inflationary gravitational waves, behaving as additional radiation in the Early Universe, can
increase the effective number of relativistic species (N eff) by a further correction that …

Axion signatures from supernova explosions through the nucleon electric-dipole portal

G Lucente, L Mastrototaro, P Carenza, L Di Luzio… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We consider axions coupled to nucleons and photons only through the nucleon electric-
dipole moment (EDM) portal. This coupling is a model-independent feature of QCD axions …

The resilience of the Etherington–Hubble relation

F Renzi, NB Hogg, W Giarè - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The Etherington reciprocity theorem, or distance duality relation (DDR), relates the mutual
scaling of cosmic distances in any metric theory of gravity where photons are massless and …

Flavor violating axions in the early Universe

F D'Eramo, S Yun - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Flavor violating axion couplings can be in action before recombination, and they can fill the
early Universe with an additional radiation component. Working within a model-independent …

Novel model-marginalized cosmological bound on the QCD axion mass

E Di Valentino, S Gariazzo, W Giarè, A Melchiorri… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We present model-marginalized limits on mixed hot dark matter scenarios, which consider
both thermal neutrinos and thermal QCD axions. A novel aspect of our analyses is the …