Viability of the matter bounce scenario in Loop Quantum Cosmology from
  BICEP2 last data
  The CMB map provided by the Planck project constrains the value of the ratio
of tensor-to-scalar perturbations, namely $r$, to be smaller than $0.11$ (95%
CL). This bound rules out the simplest models of inflation. However, recent
data from BICEP2 is in strong tension with this constrain, as it finds a value
$r=0.20^{+0.07}_{-0.05}$ with $r=0$ disfavored at $7.0 \sigma$, which allows
these simplest inflationary models to survive. The remarkable fact is that,
even though the BICEP2 experiment was conceived to search for evidence of
inflation, its experimental data matches correctly theoretical results coming
from the matter bounce scenario (the alternative model to the inflationary
paradigm). More precisely, most bouncing cosmologies do not pass Planck's
constrains due to the smallness of the value of the tensor/scalar ratio $r\leq
0.11$, but with new BICEP2 data some of them fit well with experimental data.
This is the case with the matter bounce scenario in the teleparallel version of
Loop Quantum Cosmology.
