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大轻子不对称性导致的宇宙双折射

Cosmic Birefringence from Large Lepton Asymmetry

Kentaro Kasai, Ippei Obata

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中文总结 AI 辅助

本文提出中微子电流与光子的矢量Chern-Simons耦合作为宇宙双折射起源,首次分析各向异性信号,并证明Affleck-Dine机制产生的大轻子不对称性可解释观测到的各向同性双折射,与低氦-4丰度相关。

中文摘要 AI 辅助

宇宙双折射,即宇宙微波背景(CMB)光子偏振面的旋转,为探索标准模型之外的新物理提供了一个引人入胜的探针。在本文中,我们研究了中微子电流与光子之间的矢量Chern-Simons耦合,作为各向同性宇宙双折射的可能起源。首先,我们首次分析了由中微子电流引起的各向异性宇宙双折射。我们发现,由轻子数等曲率扰动产生的各向异性信号在大尺度上可能很重要,而在小尺度上,与轴子类似粒子(ALP)情景相比,由引力效应引起的各向异性信号变得占主导地位。其次,我们表明,通过Affleck-Dine机制产生的大轻子不对称性可以成功解释观测到的各向同性双折射,并讨论了其与最近报道的斯巴鲁EMPRESS和阿塔卡马宇宙学望远镜(ACT)中低氦-4丰度的可能联系。

英文摘要

Cosmic birefringence, the rotation of the polarization plane of CMB photons, provides an intriguing probe of physics beyond the Standard Model. In this paper, we investigate a vector Chern-Simons coupling between the neutrino current and photons as a possible origin of isotropic cosmic birefringence. Firstly, we perform the first analysis of anisotropic cosmic birefringence induced by the neutrino current. We find that the anisotropic signal sourced by lepton-number isocurvature fluctuations can be important on large scales, whereas on small scales, the anisotropic signal induced by gravitational effects becomes dominant comparing with the axion-like particle (ALP) scenario. Secondly, we show that a large lepton asymmetry generated through the Affleck-Dine mechanism can successfully account for the observed isotropic birefringence, and discuss its possible connection to the recently reported low helium-4 abundances in Subaru EMPRESS and Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT).

发表机构

  • ICRR, University of Tokyo(东京大学宇宙射线研究所)
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)(高能加速器研究机构)
  • Rikkyo University(立教大学)

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