25–29 Jul 2016
University of Bergen
Europe/Zurich timezone

Observational constraints on viable f(R) gravity models

26 Jul 2016, 15:00
15m
Egget auditorium in the UiB Student Center (University of Bergen)

Egget auditorium in the UiB Student Center

University of Bergen

Parkveien 1, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Contributed talk Dark Energy and Modified Gravity Dark Energy and Modified Gravity

Speaker

Dr Chung-Chi Lee (National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan)

Summary

We investigate the matter power spectra in the power law and exponential types of viable f(R) theories along with massive neutrinos. The enhancement of the matter power spectrum is found to be a generic feature in these models. In particular, we show that in the former type, such as the Starobinsky model, the spectrum is magnified much larger than the latter one, such as the exponential model. A greater scale of the total neutrino mass is allowed in the viable f(R) models than that in the LCDM one. We obtain the constraints on the neutrino masses by using the CosmoMC package with the modified MGCAMB.

Based on (arXiv number) arXiv:1411.3813

Primary author

Dr Chung-Chi Lee (National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan)

Co-authors

Prof. Chao-Qiang Geng (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Mr Jia-Liang Shen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Presentation materials