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Are priors responsible for cosmology favoring additional neutrino species?

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arxiv 1106.5052 v1 pith:SIB55MFM submitted 2011-06-24 astro-ph.CO hep-ph

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It has been suggested that both recent cosmological data and the results of flavor oscillation experiments (MiniBooNE and LSND) lend support to the existence of low-mass sterile neutrinos. The cosmological data appear to weakly favor additional forms of radiation in the Universe, beyond photons and three standard neutrino families. We reconsider the cosmological evidence by making the resulting confidence intervals on the additional effective neutrino species as prior-independent as possible. We find that, once the prior-dependence is removed, the latest cosmological data show no evidence for deviations from the standard number of neutrino species.

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