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Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Aug 28;115(9):091301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.091301. Epub 2015 Aug 26.

First Detection of the Acoustic Oscillation Phase Shift Expected from the Cosmic Neutrino Background.

Physical review letters

Brent Follin, Lloyd Knox, Marius Millea, Zhen Pan

Affiliations

  1. University of California, Davis, California, USA.

PMID: 26371637 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.091301

Abstract

The unimpeded relativistic propagation of cosmological neutrinos prior to recombination of the baryon-photon plasma alters gravitational potentials and therefore the details of the time-dependent gravitational driving of acoustic oscillations. We report here a first detection of the resulting shifts in the temporal phase of the oscillations, which we infer from their signature in the cosmic microwave background temperature power spectrum.

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