$5\sigma$ tension between Planck cosmic microwave background and eBOSS Lyman-alpha forest and constraints on physics beyond $\Lambda$CDM

Abstract

We find that combined Planck cosmic microwave background, baryon acoustic oscillations and supernovae data analyzed under $\Lambda$CDM are in 4.9$\sigma$ tension with eBOSS Ly$\alpha$ forest in inference of the linear matter power spectrum at wavenumber $\sim 1h{\mathrm{Mpc}}^{-1}$ and redshift = 3. Model extensions can alleviate this tension: running in the tilt of the primordial power spectrum (${\alpha }_{\mathrm{s}}\sim -0.01$); a fraction $\sim (1-5)\%$ of ultra-light axion dark matter (DM) with particle mass $\sim 10^{-25}$ eV or warm DM with mass $\sim 10$ eV. The new DESI survey, coupled with high-accuracy modeling, will help distinguish the source of this discrepancy.

16 pages, 9 figures. Minor changes to match published letter

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