Reexamining the Constraint on the Helium Abundance from CMB
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چکیده
We revisit the constraint on the primordial helium mass fraction Yp from observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) alone. By minimizing χ of recent CMB experiments over 6 other cosmological parameters, we obtained rather weak constraints as 0.17 ≤ Yp ≤ 0.52 at 1σ C.L. for a particular data set. We also study the future constraint on cosmological parameters when we take account of the prediction of the standard big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) theory as a prior on the helium mass fraction where Yp can be fixed for a given energy density of baryon. We discuss the implications of the prediction of the standard BBN on the analysis of CMB.
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