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Recent measurements of the galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF) have seemingly detected non-zero parity-odd modes at high significance. Since gravity, the primary driver of galaxy formation and evolution is parity-even, any parity…

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Under the existence of chiral non-Gaussian sources during inflation, the trispectrum of primordial curvature perturbations can break parity. We examine signatures of the induced trispectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

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Could new physics break the mirror symmetry of the Universe? Utilizing recent measurements of the parity-odd four-point correlation function of BOSS galaxies, we probe the physics of inflation by placing constraints on the amplitude of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-17 Giovanni Cabass , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox

Parity violation in the early universe holds great promise for uncovering new physics. In particular, the primordial scalar four-point correlation function is allowed to develop a parity-violating component when massive spinning particles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-23 Sadra Jazayeri , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Xi Tong , Denis Werth , Yuhang Zhu

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

Parity-odd domains, corresponding to non-trivial topological solutions of the QCD vacuum, might be created during relativistic heavy ion collisions. These domains are predicted to lead to charge separation of quarks along the system's…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-01-11 The STAR Collaboration , B. I. Abelev

Cosmological observations on the largest scales exhibit a solid record of unexpected anomalies and alignments, apparently pointing towards a large scale violation of statistical isotropy. These include a variety of CMB measurements, as well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-15 Federico R. Urban , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

Circularly polarized gravitational wave backgrounds are predicted in many well-motivated models of inflation and phase transitions involving spontaneous parity violation. In this work, we investigate the detection of such parity-violating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-23 Ju Chen , Chang Liu , Yun-Long Zhang

Weak gravitational lensing on a cosmological scales can provide strong constraints both on the nature of dark matter and the dark energy equation of state. Most current weak lensing studies are restricted to (two-dimensional) projections,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dipak Munshi , Alan Heavens , Peter Coles

What would a parity-violating universe look like? We present a numerical and theoretical study of mirror asymmetries in the late universe, using a new suite of $N$-body simulations: QUIJOTE-Odd. These feature parity-violating initial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 William R. Coulton , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

New physics in the early Universe could lead to parity-violation in the late Universe, sourcing statistics whose sign changes under point reflection. The best constraints on such phenomena have come from the Planck temperature fluctuations;…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Maresuke Shiraishi

The next generation of galaxy surveys will provide highly precise measurements of galaxy clustering, therefore requiring a corresponding accuracy. Current approaches, which rely on approximations and idealized assumptions, may fall short in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Francesco Spezzati , Eleonora Vanzan , Alvise Raccanelli , Zvonimir Vlah , Daniele Bertacca

Many different techniques to analyze galaxy clustering data and obtain cosmological constraints have been proposed, tested and used. Given the large amount of data that will be available soon, it is worth investigating new observables and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Eleonora Vanzan , Alvise Raccanelli , Nicola Bartolo

We show that the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing trispectrum is sensitive to parity violation in Large-Scale Structure (LSS). We obtain a compact expression for the reduced lensing trispectrum that is general for any input matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Alessandro Greco , Zachary Slepian , Jiamin Hou , Alex Krolewski

Forthcoming galaxy surveys will provide measurements of galaxy clustering with an unprecedented level of precision, that will require comparably good accuracy. Current models for galaxy correlations rely on approximations and idealizations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-26 Alvise Raccanelli , Zvonimir Vlah

A stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is expected to arise from the superposition of many independent and unresolved gravitational-wave signals, of either cosmological or astrophysical origin. Some cosmological models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. G. Crowder , R. Namba , V. Mandic , S. Mukohyama , M. Peloso

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

Although the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is largely understood to be homogeneous and isotropic, the CMB angular power spectra present anomalies that seem to break down parity symmetry at large angular scales. We argue that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-12 K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

The interplay between cosmology and strongly coupled dynamics can yield transient spectral features that vanish at late times, but which may leave behind phenomenological signatures in the spectrum of primordial fluctuations. Of particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Jay Hubisz , Seung J. Lee , He Li , Bharath Sambasivam

We extend the dust-filament-based model presented in Herv\'ias-Caimapo & Huffenberger 2022 to produce parity-violating foreground spectra by manipulating the filament orientations relative to the magnetic field. We calibrate our model to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Ari J. Cukierman , Patricia Diego-Palazuelos , Kevin M. Huffenberger , Susan E. Clark