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宇宙微波背景圆偏振的产生

Generation of Circular Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Stephon Alexander, Joseph Ochoa, Arthur Kosowsky

摘要:

标准的宇宙学模型,其中只包括康普顿散射光子相互作用的能量尺度附近的复合,导致零原始圆极化的宇宙微波背景。在本文中,我们考虑了一个特殊的可重整化和规范不变的标准模型扩展耦合光子到外部矢量场通过陈-西蒙斯项,这是作为辐射校正,如果引力挠耦合到费米子。我们从玻尔兹曼方程计算了偏振光子的输运方程,表明这样的耦合将源微波背景的圆偏振。对于这里考虑的特定耦合,与也使用相同的形式主义导出的线偏振取向的旋转相比,圆偏振效应总是可以忽略的。我们注意到的可能性,微波背景圆偏振的限制可能会探测其他光子相互作用和相关的基本效应,如违反洛伦兹不变性。

英文摘要:

The standard cosmological model, which includes only Compton scattering photon interactions at energy scales near recombination, results in zero primordial circular polarization of the cosmic microwave background. In this paper we consider a particular renormalizable and gauge-invariant standard model extension coupling photons to an external vector field via a Chern-Simons term, which arises as a radiative correction if gravitational torsion couples to fermions. We compute the transport equations for polarized photons from a Boltzmann-like equation, showing that such a coupling will source circular polarization of the microwave background. For the particular coupling considered here, the circular polarization effect is always negligible compared to the rotation of the linear polarization orientation, also derived using the same formalism. We note the possibility that limits on microwave background circular polarization may probe other photon interactions and related fundamental effects such as violations of Lorentz invariance.

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