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arXiv 2003.10465astro-ph.COhep-ph
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非均匀宇宙中的有效光子质量和(暗)光子转换

Effective photon mass and (dark) photon conversion in the inhomogeneous Universe

Andres Aramburo Garcia, Kyrylo Bondarenko, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Josef Pradler, Anastasia Sokolenko

摘要:

光子在非均匀宇宙中的宇宙学距离经历了介质诱导有效质量的巨大变化。使用EAGLE套件的流体动力学模拟,我们推断的自由电子分布,从而再电离后的有效光子质量。我们利用这些数据来研究动力学混合光子和暗光子的相互转换,这可能会发生在大量的共振红移,并获得“光学深度”对转换沿随机视线。使用COBE/FIRAS,普朗克,和SPT测量,我们约束暗光子参数空间从CMB光子耗尽到暗光子,导致光谱失真和额外的各向异性的CMB。最后,我们还考虑了亚电子伏暗辐射到普通光子的转换。我们公开了自由电子和暗物质的视线分布。

英文摘要:

Photons traveling cosmological distances through the inhomogeneous Universe experience a great variation in their in-medium induced effective mass. Using the EAGLE suite of hydrodynamical simulations, we infer the free electron distribution and thereby the effective photon mass after reionization. We use this data to study the inter-conversion of kinetically mixed photons and dark photons, which may occur at a great number of resonance redshifts, and obtain the "optical depth" against conversion along random lines-of-sight. Using COBE/FIRAS, Planck, and SPT measurements, we constrain the dark photon parameter space from the depletion of CMB photons into dark photons that causes both spectral distortions and additional anisotropies in the CMB. Finally, we also consider the conversion of sub-eV dark radiation into ordinary photons. We make the line-of-sight distributions of both, free electrons and dark matter, publicly available.

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