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Is Cosmic Birefringence model-dependent?

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-05-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Exciting clues to isotropic cosmic birefringence have recently been detected in the EBEB cross-power spectra of the polarization data of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Early Dark Energy (EDE) models with a pseudoscalar field coupled to photons via a Chern-Simons term can be used to explain this phenomenon, and can also potentially be used to simultaneously resolve the H0H_0 tension. In this work we incorporate an early dark energy scalar field, including a Chern-Simons coupling, into an existing Boltzmann solver and numerically recover the EBEB cross-power spectrum for two models in the literature; the α\alpha-attractor, and the Rock `n' Roll field. We find that both the models fit the EBEB spectra, and the EBEB spectra alone do not possess sufficient constraining power to distinguish the two models based on current data.

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@article{arxiv.2305.07937,
  title  = {Is Cosmic Birefringence model-dependent?},
  author = {Lu Yin and Joby Kochappan and Tuhin Ghosh and Bum-Hoon Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.07937},
  year   = {2023}
}
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