Published October 1, 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Forecasting sensitivity on tilt of power spectrum of primordial gravitational waves after Planck satellite

  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100190 (China)
  • 2. CAS Key Laboratory for Researches in Galaxies and Cosmology, Department of Astronomy, University of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230026 (China)

Description

By taking into account the contamination of foreground radiations, we employ the Fisher matrix to forecast the future sensitivity on the tilt of power spectrum of primordial tensor perturbations for several ground-based (AdvACT, CLASS, Keck/BICEP3, Simons Array, SPT-3G), balloon-borne (EBEX, Spider) and satellite (CMBPol, COrE, LiteBIRD) experiments of B-mode polarizations. For the fiducial model nt=0, our results show that the satellite experiments give good sensitivity on the tensor tilt nt to the level σnt∼<0.1 for r∼>2×10−3, while the ground-based and balloon-borne experiments give worse sensitivity. By considering the BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck (BKP) constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio r, we see that it is impossible for these experiments to test the consistency relation nt=−r/8 in the canonical single-field slow-roll inflation models

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/10/035

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2015
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 035
ISSN
1475-7516

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
47096181
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
COSMOLOGICAL INFLATION; DISTURBANCES; ENERGY SPECTRA; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; LIMITING VALUES; MATRICES; POLARIZATION; SATELLITES; SCALARS; SENSITIVITY; TENSORS
Descriptors DEC
COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRA