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Nonthermal dark matter mimicking an additional neutrino species in the early universe

Nonthermal dark matter mimicking an additional neutrino species in the early universe

The South Pole Telescope (SPT), Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) have each reported measurements of the cosmic microwave background's (CMB) angular power spectrum which favor the existence of roughly one additional neutrino species, in addition to the three contained in the standard model of particle …