Measuring the spectral running from cosmic microwave background and primordial black holes

• Main Authors: Jun Li, Qing-Guo Huang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2018-11-01
• Series: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6471-z

Abstract We constrain the spectral running by combining cosmic microwave background (CMB) data, baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data and the constraint from primordial black holes (PBHs). We find that the constraint from PBHs has a significant impact on the running of running of scalar spectral index, and a power-law scalar power spectrum without running is consistent with observational data once the constraint from PBHs is taken into account. In addition, from the constraints on the slow-roll parameters, the derived tensor spectral index in the single-field slow-roll inflation model is quite small, namely $$|n_t|\lesssim 9.3\times 10^{-3}$$ |nt|≲9.3×10-3 which will be very difficult to be measured by CMB data only in the future, and the absolute value of derived running of tensor spectral index is not larger than $$2.1\times 10^{-4}$$ 2.1×10-4 at 95% confidence level.