Axion dark matter induced cosmic microwave background B modes
學年 105
學期 2
出版（發表）日期 2017-06-01
作品名稱 Axion dark matter induced cosmic microwave background B modes
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著者 Liu Guo-Chin; Ng Kin-Wang
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著錄名稱、卷期、頁數 Physics of the Dark Universe 16, p.22-25
摘要 It was known that isocurvature perturbation of a nearly massless cosmological axion field can lead to rotation of E-mode polarization into B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the presence of a parity violating coupling of the field to the topological density of electromagnetism, resulting in a phenomenon known as anisotropic cosmic birefringence. In this Letter, we propose a new source of anisotropic cosmic birefringence induced by dark matter adiabatic density perturbation. If dark matter is ultralight axions that carry a coupling to photon, its adiabatic density fluctuations will induce anisotropic cosmic birefringence with a blue-tilted rotation power spectrum, thus generating CMB B-mode polarization on sub-degree angular scales. Using current POLARBEAR and SPTPol B-mode polarization data, we derive a constraint on the axion–photon coupling strength (β) and the axion mass (m), β2(10−22eV∕m)2<8×1015. It is shown that the birefringence B modes can dominate over CMB lensing B modes at high l, manifesting as an excess power for l>1500 in future CMB lensing B-mode searches. In addition, we derive the lensing–rotation cross correlation that can be a potential test to the present model.
關鍵字 CMB polarization;Ultra-light axion
語言 en
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期刊性質 國外
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