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Parity-violating physics in the early Universe can leave detectable traces in late-time observables. Whilst vector- and tensor-type parity-violation can be observed in the $B$-modes of the cosmic microwave background, scalar-type signatures…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-17 Oliver H. E. Philcox

Recent works have uncovered an excess signal in the parity-odd four-point correlation function measured from the BOSS spectroscopic galaxy survey. If physical in origin, this could indicate evidence for new parity-breaking processes in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-19 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Julia Ereza

The four-point correlation function is the lowest order correlation function for scalar fields that can be used to probe statistical parity invariance in an isotropic universe. There are intriguing claims of detection of parity violation in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-21 Prakruth Adari , Anže Slosar

Measurements of the galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF) from theSloan Digital Sky Survey Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS BOSS) have recently found strong statistical evidence for parity violation. If this signal is of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-08 Jiamin Hou , Zachary Slepian , Drew Jamieson

We present an $8.1\sigma$ detection of the non-Gaussian 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF) using a sample of $N_{\rm g} \approx 8\times 10^5$ galaxies from the BOSS CMASS dataset. Our measurement uses the $\mathcal{O}(N_{\rm g}^2)$ NPCF…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-05 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Jiamin Hou , Zachary Slepian

Detection of parity violation on cosmological scales would have profound implications for fundamental physics. Motivated in part by recent measurements of parity-odd four-point correlation functions in BOSS and DESI luminous red galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Zucheng Gao , Marina S. Cagliari , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Zvonimir Vlah

We use machine learning methods to search for parity violations in the Large-Scale Structure (LSS) of the Universe, motivated by recent claims of chirality detection using the 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF), which would suggest new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Samuel Hewson , Will J. Handley , Christopher G. Lester

Recent measurements of the $4$-point correlation functions (4PCF) from spectroscopic surveys provide evidence for parity-violations in the large-scale structure of the Universe. If physical in origin, this could point to exotic physics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Peter L. Taylor , Matthew Craigie , Yuan-Sen Ting

A tetrahedron is the simplest shape that cannot be rotated into its mirror image in 3D. The 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF), which quantifies excess clustering of quartets of galaxies over random, is the lowest-order statistic sensitive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Jiamin Hou , Zachary Slepian , Robert N. Cahn

We show that the galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF) can test for cosmological parity violation. The detection of cosmological parity violation would reflect previously unknown forces present at the earliest moments of the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-26 Robert N. Cahn , Zachary Slepian , Jiamin Hou

Recent searches for parity breaking in the galaxy four-point correlation function, as well as the prospects for greatly improved sensitivity to parity breaking in forthcoming surveys, motivate the search for physical mechanisms that could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-07 Keisuke Inomata , Leah Jenks , Marc Kamionkowski

We present a measurement of the non-Gaussian four-point correlation function (4PCF) from the DESI DR1 Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample. For the gravitationally induced parity-even 4PCF, we detect a signal with a significance of 14.7$\sigma$…

Recent measurements of the 4-point correlation function in large-scale galaxy surveys have found apparent evidence of parity violation in the distribution of galaxies. This cannot happen via dynamical gravitational effects in general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 Pritha Paul , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens

The parity-odd four-point function provides a unique probe of fundamental symmetries and potential new physics in the large-scale structure of the Universe. We present measurements of the parity-odd four-point function using the DESI DR1…

We analyze clustering measurements of BOSS galaxies using a simulation-based emulator of two-point statistics. We focus on the monopole and quadrupole of the redshift-space correlation function, and the projected correlation function, at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Zhongxu Zhai , Jeremy L. Tinker , Arka Banerjee , Joseph DeRose , Hong Guo , Yao-Yuan Mao , Sean McLaughlin , Kate Storey-Fisher , Risa H. Wechsler

Starting with the density field equation of a self-gravity fluid in a static Universe, using the Schwinger functional differentiation technique, we derive the field equation of the 4-point correlation function (4PCF) of galaxies in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-11 Yang Zhang , Shu-Guang Wu

After calibrating the predictions of the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure against several sets of simulations, as well as implementing a new method to assert the scale cut of the theory without the use of any simulation, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Pierre Zhang , Guido D'Amico , Leonardo Senatore , Cheng Zhao , Yifu Cai

We reanalyse the anisotropic galaxy clustering measurement from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), demonstrating that using the full shape information provides cosmological constraints that are comparable to other…

The anisotropic galaxy 2-point correlation function (2PCF) allows measurement of the growth of large-scale structures from the effect of peculiar velocities on the clustering pattern. We present new measurements of the auto- and cross-…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Felipe A. Marín , Florian Beutler , Chris Blake , Jun Koda , Eyal Kazin , Donald P. Schneider
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