Gravitational lensing of the CMB: a Feynman diagram approach

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2014.07.002MaRDI QIDQ2356360zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elizabeth E. Jenkins, Aneesh V. Manohar, Amit P. S. Yadav, Wouter J. Waalewijn

Publication date 29 July 2015

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.2386

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We develop a Feynman diagram approach to calculating correlations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in the presence of distortions. As one application, we focus on CMB distortions due to gravitational lensing by Large Scale Structure (LSS). We study the Hu-Okamoto quadratic estimator for extracting lensing from the CMB and derive the noise of the estimator up to $mathcalO(ph{i}^4)$ in the lensing potential $phi$. The previously noted large $mathcalO(ph{i}^4)$ term can be significantly reduced by a reorganization of the $phi$ expansion. Our approach makes it simple to obtain expressions for quadratic estimators based on any CMB channel. We briefly discuss other applications to cosmology of this diagrammatic approach, such as distortions of the CMB due to patchy reionization, or due to Faraday rotation from primordial axion fields.

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