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Parity violation in the CMB bispectrum by a rolling pseudoscalar

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2013-11-22 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

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 (1+2+3=even)(\ell_1 + \ell_2 + \ell_3 = {\rm even}) and parity-odd (1+2+3=odd)(\ell_1 + \ell_2 + \ell_3 = {\rm 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 400%400\% 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 1σ1\sigma uncertainties of a parameter depending on a coupling constant and a rolling condition for the pseudoscalar expected in the Planck{\it Planck} and the proposed PRISM experiments.

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@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

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