Probing light relics through cosmic dawn

Abstract

We explore the prospects of upcoming 21-cm surveys of cosmic dawn ($12\lesssim z\lesssim 30$) to provide cosmological information on top of upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) and large-scale structure surveys, such as CMB-S4, Simons Observatory (SO) and DESI. We focus on the effective number of relativistic species $N_{\mathrm{eff}}$ which is a promising observable for probing beyond the Standard Model theories. We show including upcoming 21-cm surveys such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) can allow probing a wide range of models for light particles at $2\sigma$ level achieving $2\sigma (N_{\mathrm{eff}})=0.034$ with CMB-S4, for example. Taking into account the degeneracy between $N_{\mathrm{eff}}$ and primordial helium fraction $Y_p$, one can achieve improvements in sensitivities to cosmological parameters, in particular, by more than a factor of 2 for $N_{\mathrm{eff}}$ and dark matter fractional energy density ${\omega }_c$.

arXiv comment6 pages, 3 figures. Version accepted and published in PRD

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