A model for CMB anisotropies on large angular scales
Abstract
We investigate the possibility that a low-temperature, low-frequency anomaly in the black-body spectrum, as it emerges when enlarging the Standard Model's gauge-group factor U(1) to SU(2) (Yang-Mills scale eV), explains the discrepancy between the Local Group's velocity as directly observed and as inferred by assuming a purely kinematic origin of the CMB dipole. This discrepancy determines the kinetic term for temperature fluctuations in our model action. Upon subtracting the dipole contribution this model can then be used to predict the low multipoles with in the CMB temperature-temperature correlation and to reinvestigate the issue of statistical isotropy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0703119,
title = {A model for CMB anisotropies on large angular scales},
author = {Michal Szopa and Ralf Hofmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0703119},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
v2: 21 pages, 13 figures, changes in and addition of text, correction of unit in Fig. 8