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Is a symmetric matter-antimatter universe excluded?

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-12-29 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We consider a non-standard cosmological model in which the universe contains as much matter as antimatter on large scales and presents a local baryon asymmetry. A key ingredient in our approach is that the baryon density distribution follows Gaussian fluctuations around a null value η=0\eta = 0. Spatial domains featuring a positive (resp. negative) baryonic density value constitute regions dominated by matter (resp. antimatter). At the domains' annihilation interface, the typical density is going smoothly to zero, rather than following an abrupt step as assumed in previous symetric matter-antimatter models. As a consequence, the Cosmic Diffuse Gamma Background produced by annihilation is drastically reduced, allowing to easily pass COMPTEL's measurements limits. Similarly the Compton yy distorsion and CMB 'ribbons' are lowered by an appreciable factor. Therefore this model essentially escape previous constrainst on symetric matter-antimatter models. However, we produce an estimation of the CMB temperature fluctuations that would result from this model and confront it to data acquired from the Planck satellite. We construct a angular power spectrum in δT/TCMB\delta T / T_{CMB} assuming is can be approximated as an average of CC_\ell over a Gaussian distribution of ΩB\Omega_B using Lewis & Challinor's CAMB software. The resulting CC_\ell are qualitatively satisfying. We quantify the goodness of fit using a simple χ2\chi^2 test. We consider two distinct scenarios in which the fluctuations on ΩB\Omega_B are compensated by fluctuations on ΩCDM\Omega_{CDM} to assure a spatially flat Ωκ=0\Omega_\kappa = 0 universe or not. In both cases, out best fit have Δχ22400\Delta \chi^2 \gtrsim 2400 (with respect to a fiducial Λ\LambdaCDM model), empirically excluding our model by several tens of standard deviations.

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@article{arxiv.1512.08482,
  title  = {Is a symmetric matter-antimatter universe excluded?},
  author = {Julien Baur and Alain Blanchard and Peter Von Ballmoos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08482},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages. 1 figure. submitted to A&A