2016/08/31 by Suresh Kumar, Rafael C. Nunes · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.94.123511
published as Phys. Rev. D 94, 123511 (2016) · 8 pages, 4 figures; Added new models based on neutrinos, and revised the whole paper accordingly
arxiv created 2016/12/13 · arxiv updated 2016/12/21
We consider the possibility of an interaction in the dark sector in the presence of massive neutrinos, and study the observational constraints on three different scenarios of massive neutrinos using the most recent CMB anisotropy data in combination with type Ia supernovae, baryon acoustic oscillations, and Hubble parameter measurements. When a sterile neutrino is introduced in the interacting dark sector scenario in addition to the standard model prediction of neutrinos, we find that the coupling parameter, characterizing the interaction between dark matter and dark energy, is non-zero at 2σ confidence level. The interaction model with sterile neutrino is also found to be a promising one to alleviate the current tension on Hubble constant. We do not find the evidence for a coupling in the dark sector when the possibility of a sterile neutrino is discarded.