Decoupling and coherent plasma oscillations around last scattering
Abstract
Coherent properties of the baryon-photon fluid decoupling are considered in the terms of an effective nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation for a macroscopic wave function that specifies the index of the coherent state. Generation of a transitional acoustic turbulence preceding formation of large-scale condensate in the plasma and its influence on the CMB power spectrum has been studied. A scaling law is derived for the CMB Doppler spectrum (angle-averaged) in the {\it wavenumber} space, for sufficiently large wavenumber and for the weak nonlinear and completely disordered initial conditions. Using the recent WMAP data it is shown that the so-called first acoustic peak represents (in a compensated spectral form) a pre-condensate fraction of the spectrum at a rather advance stage of the condensate formation process.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0711.3903,
title = {Decoupling and coherent plasma oscillations around last scattering},
author = {A. Bershadskii},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3903},
year = {2008}
}