Positive neutrino masses with DESI DR2 via matter conversion to dark energy

Abstract

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a massively parallel spectroscopic survey on the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak, which has released measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations determined from over 14 million extragalactic targets. We combine DESI Data Release 2 with CMB datasets to search for evidence of matter conversion to dark energy (DE), focusing on a scenario mediated by stellar collapse to cosmologically-coupled black holes (CCBH). In this physical model, which has the same number of free parameters as $\Lambda$CDM, DE production is determined by the cosmic star formation rate density (SFRD), allowing for distinct early- and late-time cosmologies. Using two SFRDs to bracket current observations, we find that the CCBH model: accurately recovers the cosmological expansion history, agrees with early-time baryon abundance measured by BBN, reduces tension with the local distance ladder, and relaxes constraints on the summed neutrino mass $\sum m_{\nu }$. For these SFRDs, we find a peaked positive $\sum m_{\nu }<0.149\mathrm{eV}$ (95% confidence) and $\sum m_{\nu }=0.106_{-0.069}^{+0.050}\mathrm{eV}$ respectively, in good agreement with lower limits from neutrino oscillation experiments. A peak in $\sum m_{\nu }>0$ results from late-time baryon consumption in the CCBH scenario and is expected to be a general feature of any model that converts sufficient matter to dark energy during and after reionization.

6 pages + 2 End Matter, 4 figures

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