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Measuring the spectral running from cosmic microwave background and primordial black holes
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 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 at 95%
confidence level.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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