CAMB: Setting massless neutrino density to zero

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Rui Xu
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CAMB: Setting massless neutrino density to zero

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Hi,

I'm trying to get familiar with using CAMB, so I would like to figure out its details with only a simple cosmological model where there are only matter, dark matter, and photons. I managed to remove massive neutrinos by setting mnu=0 in camb.CAMBparams.set_cosmology(). But I couldn't find a parameter that lets me to remove the massless neutrinos. Is it possible to remove the massless neutrino component in using CAMB? If yes, how can it be done?

Thanks!
Rui
Antony Lewis
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Re: CAMB: Setting massless neutrino density to zero

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You can try setting nnu=0 (not sure it will work; not you also change BBN predictions if messing with number of neutrinos).
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Rui Xu
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Re: CAMB: Setting massless neutrino density to zero

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Thank you for the reply. Yes, I tried to set nnu=0 or/and standard_neutrino_neff=0, but I still get nonzero delta_neutrino using get_time_evolution(). I guess the effect of neutrino is small and I probably can just ignore it at the moment.

Regards,
Rui
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Re: CAMB: Setting massless neutrino density to zero

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It will still evolve the fractional perturbations, but the contribution to the evolution should go to zero (because weighed by the background densities)
Rui Xu
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Re: CAMB: Setting massless neutrino density to zero

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Okay, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!
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