Parity violation in the CMB bispectrum by a rolling pseudoscalar
Abstract
We investigate parity-violating signatures of temperature and polarization bispectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in an inflationary model where a rolling pseudoscalar produces large equilateral tensor non-Gaussianity. By a concrete computation based on full-sky formalism, it is shown that resultant CMB bispectra have nonzero signals in both parity-even and parity-odd spaces, and are almost uncorrelated with usual scalar-mode equilateral bispectra. These characteristic signatures and polarization information help to detect such tensor non-Gaussianity. Use of both temperature and E-mode bispectra potentially improves of the detectability with respect to an analysis with temperature bispectrum alone. Considering B-mode bispectrum, the signal-to-noise ratio may be able to increase by 3 orders of magnitude. We present the uncertainties of a parameter depending on a coupling constant and a rolling condition for the pseudoscalar expected in the and the proposed PRISM experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1308.6769,
title = {Parity violation in the CMB bispectrum by a rolling pseudoscalar},
author = {Maresuke Shiraishi and Angelo Ricciardone and Shohei Saga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.6769},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
19 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in JCAP