The cosmic microwave background and pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons: searching for Lorentz violations in the cosmos

DOI10.1142/S0217732317300026zbMATH Open1356.83001arXiv1611.00418OpenAlexW3100674033WikidataQ63492574 ScholiaQ63492574MaRDI QIDQ2964074FDOQ2964074

Brian Keating, Matthew Mewes, David Leon, Jonathan Kaufman

Publication date: 23 February 2017

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: One of the most powerful probes of new physics is the polarized Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The detection of a nonzero polarization angle rotation between the CMB surface of last scattering and today could provide evidence of Lorentz-violating physics. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First we review one popular mechanism for polarization rotation of CMB photons: the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson. Second, we propose a method to use the Polarbear experiment to constrain Lorentz-violating physics in the context of the Standard-Model Extension, a framework to standardize a large class of potential Lorentz-violating terms in particle physics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00418

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyLorentz invarianceaxionsNambu-Goldstone bosons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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