2014

The Darkness of Spin-0 Dark Radiation

Marsh, M. C. David

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We show that the scattering of a general spin-0 sector of dark radiation off the pre-recombination thermal plasma results in undetectably small spectral distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background.

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