2011

Parity violation in the Cosmic Microwave Background from a pseudoscalar inflaton

Sorbo, Lorenzo

Understand

If the inflaton is a pseudoscalar, then it naturally interacts with gauge fields via an axion-like coupling to $F_{\mu\nu} \tilde{F}^{\mu\nu}$.

  • Through this coupling, the rolling inflaton produces quanta of the gauge field, that in their turn source the tensor components of the metric perturbations.
  • Due to the parity-violating nature of the system, the right- and the left-handed tensor modes have different amplitudes.
  • Such an asymmetry manifests itself in the form of non-vanishing TB and EB correlation functions in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).

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