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利用宇宙复合辐射探测早期暗能量和基本常数的变化

Using the cosmological recombination radiation to probe early dark energy and fundamental constant variations

Luke Hart, Jens Chluba

摘要:

宇宙复合辐射(CRR)是来自早期宇宙的光谱畸变信号之一。来自氢和氦的CRR光子早于最后的散射过程,因此允许探测前复合时代的物理现象。在这里,我们计算由早期的暗能量模型和不同的基本常数所引起的CRR的修改。这些新的物理学例子最近与哈勃张力有关的活动有所增加,激发了这里提出的探索性研究。相关的CRR响应频谱丰富,但信号电平很小。我们预测了未来光谱仪对这些效应的可能灵敏度。我们的估计表明,CRR直接取决于在前重组时代的膨胀历史和重组物理的变化。然而,未来的灵敏度需要光谱仪的限制,与其他宇宙学探测器的竞争。尽管如此,CRR的测量可以直接进入否则无法进入的阶段,突出了这些类型的观测可能作为早期宇宙的探测器的潜力。与${\it Planck}$数据的组合进一步表明,协同方法非常有前途。

英文摘要:

The cosmological recombination radiation (CRR) is one of the guaranteed spectral distortion signals from the early Universe. The CRR photons from hydrogen and helium pre-date the last scattering process and as such allow probing physical phenomena in the pre-recombination era. Here we compute the modifications to the CRR caused by early dark energy models and varying fundamental constants. These new physics examples have seen increased recent activity in connection with the Hubble tension, motivating the exploratory study presented here. The associated CRR responses are spectrally-rich but the level of the signals is small. We forecast the possible sensitivity of future spectrometers to these effects. Our estimates demonstrate that the CRR directly depends to changes in the expansion history and recombination physics during the pre-recombination era. However, futuristic sensitivities are required for spectrometer-only constraints that are competitive with other cosmological probes. Nevertheless, measurements of the CRR can directly reach into phases that otherwise remain inaccessible, highlighting the potential these types of observations could have as a probe of the early Universe. A combination with ${\it Planck}$ data further shows that a synergistic approach is very promising.

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