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Decoupling and coherent plasma oscillations around last scattering

Astrophysics 2008-04-07 v1 Chaotic Dynamics Plasma Physics

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 k1k^{-1} law is derived for the CMB Doppler spectrum E(k)E(k) (angle-averaged) in the {\it wavenumber} space, for sufficiently large wavenumber kk 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 E(k)E(k) at a rather advance stage of the condensate formation process.

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@article{arxiv.0711.3903,
  title  = {Decoupling and coherent plasma oscillations around last scattering},
  author = {A. Bershadskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3903},
  year   = {2008}
}
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