Confronting the damping of the baryon acoustic oscillations with
  observation
  We investigate the damping of the baryon acoustic oscillations in the matter
power spectrum due to the quasinonlinear clustering and redshift-space
distortions by confronting the models with the observations of the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy sample. The chi-squared test suggests
that the observed power spectrum is better matched by models with the damping
of the baryon acoustic oscillations rather than the ones without the damping.
