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Chirality and cosmology Marc Kamionkowski Johns Hopkins University The gist Fundamental interactions are parity breaking maybe parity breaking is manifest in new cosmological physics (inflation, dark matter, dark energy, baryogenesis) as

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Chirality and cosmology

Marc Kamionkowski Johns Hopkins University

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The gist

  • Fundamental interactions are parity breaking
  • maybe parity breaking is manifest in new cosmological physics

(inflation, dark matter, dark energy, baryogenesis) as well?

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Themes

Elegant mathematics Proofs of principle New observables

Some futuristic/academic Some possibly

  • bservable
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Subjects

  • Circular polarization of the CMB
  • From density perturbations
  • From gravitational waves
  • From chiral gravitational-wave background
  • Chiral gravitational waves
  • Pulsar timing arrays
  • Astrometry
  • 21-cm polarization
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collaborators

  • CMB: Keisuke Inomata
  • PTAs/astrometry: Selim Hotinli, Kim Boddy, Wenzer Qin, Liang Dai,

Andrew Jaffe, Enis Belgacem

  • 21-cm: Lingyuan Ji, Keisuke Inomata
  • TAM formalism: Liang Dai, Donghui Jeong
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Cosmic microwave background

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Linearly polarized by anisotropic Thomson scattering

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Circular polarization of CMB

  • Does not arise at linear order in cosmological perturbations
  • Linear polarization from scattering of anisotropic radiation field
  • Circular polarization arises at second order from photon-photon

interactions anisotropic CMB background gives rise to anisotropic index of refraction that a given CMB photon passes through (Sawyer 2014; Montero-Camacho & Hirata, 2018)

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But what about circular polarization

  • Does not arise at linear order in cosmological perturbations

(Thomson scattering induces only *linear* polarization)

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But can be induced by propagation of linearly polarized light through birefringent medium

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Primordial density perturbations

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Now suppose primordial polarization or index-of- refraction tensor due to primordial GWs

  • Polarization and index of refraction now have B (as well as E) modes:
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Probably far from detectable

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Chiral photons from chiral GWs

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Pulsar timing arrays and gravitational waves

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Consider + polarized GW in +z direction

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Total angular momentum waves

  • Standard approach

(~ x) = X

~ k

˜ (~ k)ei~

k·~ x

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(~ x) = X

klm

klmΨklm(~ x)

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  • Analogous expansions for vector fields in terms of three types (E, B, L)
  • f vector TAM waves
  • Analogous expansions for STF tensor fields in terms of 5 types (L, VE,

VB, TE, TB) of tensor TAM waves. Transverse-traceless are TE/TB

  • TAM formalism far more powerful for vector/tensor fields (than for

scalar) given the transformation properties (the “spin”) of these fields under rotations

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For PTA/astrometry

  • Is trivial to consider contribution of any given TAM wave to

PTA/astrometry observables

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GW anisotropy with PTAs

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Bottom line

  • Isotropic signal must be established with high SNR before anisotropy

can be detected, and then only if anisotropy amplitude is O(1).

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Back to chirality!!

  • Anisotropy estimator easily modified to seek GW circular-polarization
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  • Anisotropy -à CP :: + à
  • L+l+l’ = even à

L+l+l’ = odd

  • So estimators for intensity anisotropy become estimators for circular-

polarization anisotropy by placing L+l+l’ even to L+l+l’ odd

  • One consequence: monopole (an overall GW chirality) not detectable
  • Numerically, CP dipole detectable with high SNR and for CP dipole

O(1)

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This is interesting!

  • ~nHZ GW background from SMBH-binary mergers
  • Local signal may well be dominated by one, or a handful of sources,

and if so, intensity should be anisotropic, and signal most generally circularly polarized to O(1)

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Circular polarization of 21-cm radiation from dark ages

  • Hirata, Mishra & Venumadhav (2017) calculated circular polarization

from 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen from misalignment of 21-cm quadrupole and CMB quadrupole. Calculation performed with spherical tensors.

  • Our work (in progress): reformulate in terms of Cartesian tensors and

then use TAM to simplify calculation. Provide first numerical results

  • n “standard model” prediction (that arises from 2nd order in density-

perturbation amplitude)

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arXiv:2005.10250

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Numerically….

  • Signal far too big to be seen any time soon, but conceivably

detectable with future lunar-based radio array

  • May be interesting cross-correlations with other observables (CMB B

mode, weak lensing, etc.)

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Summary/conclusions

  • Calculational tools from TAM formalism allow dramatic simplification
  • f observables on a spherical sky, especially when vector/tensor

modes are involved and/or observables are 2nd order in perturbation theory

  • CMB circular polarization in standard model
  • Imprint of chirality of GW background on CMB CP
  • Elegant/compact formalism for PTA/astrometry probes of ~nHZ GW

background

  • CP of 21-cm radiation from dark ages