Constraints on non-resonant photon-axion conversion from the Planck satellite data

Mukherjee, Suvodip; Khatri, Rishi; Wandelt, B. D.

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2019/06/031

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“…Our results are not directly applicable, but could, however, be extended using the appropriate source term. We noted that resonant photon conversion mediated by magnetic fields inside our galaxy and galaxy clusters can lead to anisotropic spectral distortions (both polarized and unpolarized, e.g., Mukherjee et al 2019Mukherjee et al , 2020, providing exciting targets for future CMB imagers (Delabrouille et al 2019;Chluba et al 2019a). All these examples highlight the immense potential of future spectral distortion measurements as a probe of particle physics.…”

Section: Axion-like-particlesmentioning

confidence: 80%

Spectral distortion constraints on photon injection from low-mass decaying particles

Bolliet,

Chluba,

Battye

2020

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Spectral distortions (SDs) of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide a powerful tool for studying particle physics.Here we compute the distortion signals from decaying particles that convert directly into photons at different epochs during cosmic history, focusing on injection energies E inj 20 keV. We deliver a comprehensive library of SD solutions that can be used to study a wide range of particle physics scenarios. We use CosmoTherm to compute the SD signals, including effects on the ionization history and opacities of the Universe. We also consider the effect of blackbody-induced stimulated decay, which can modify the injection history significantly. Then, we use data from COBE/FIRAS and EDGES to constrain the properties of the decaying particles. We explore scenarios where these provide a dark matter (DM) candidate or constitute only a small fraction of DM. We complement the SD constraints with CMB anisotropy constraints, highlighting new effects from injections at very-low photon energies (hν 10 −4 eV). Our model-independent constraints exhibit rich structures in the lifetime-energy domain, covering injection energies E inj 10 −10 eV − 10keV and lifetimes τ X 10 5 s − 10 33 s. We discuss the constraints on axions and axion-like particles that convert directly into two photons, revising existing SD constraints in the literature. Our limits are competitive with other constraints for axion masses m a c 2 27 eV and we find that simple estimates based on the overall energetics are generally inaccurate. Future CMB spectrometers could significantly improve the obtained constraints, thus providing an important complementary probe of early-universe particle physics.

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Section: Axion-like-particlesmentioning

confidence: 80%

Spectral distortion constraints on photon injection from low-mass decaying particles

Bolliet,

Chluba,

Battye

2020

Preprint

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“…This avenue will provide stringent constraints on the coupling strength g γ γ a for all the masses of ALPs below 10 −11 eV. The first constraint of this kind of distortion is obtained from the data of the Planck satellite [256].…”

Section: Axion-like Particlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

New horizons in cosmology with spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background

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This Voyage 2050 paper highlights the unique science opportunities using spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). CMB spectral distortions probe many processes throughout the history of the Universe, delivering novel information that complements past, present and future efforts with CMB anisotropy and large-scale structure studies. Precision spectroscopy, possible with existing technology, would not only provide key tests for processes expected within the cosmological standard model but also open an enormous discovery space to new physics. This offers unique scientific opportunities for furthering our understanding of inflation, recombination, reionization and structure formation as well as dark matter and particle physics. A dedicated experimental approach could open this new window to the early Universe in the decades to come, allowing us to turn the long-standing upper distortion limits obtained with COBE/FIRAS some 25 years ago into clear detections of the expected standard distortion signals and also challenge our current understanding of the laws of nature.

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“…Adding information from secondary CMB anisotropies in the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect could further increase sensitivity and also probe up to m φ ∼ 10 −22 eV [141,178,179]. Electromagnetic UDM couplings will also yield CMB spectral distortion signatures [180][181][182][183][184].…”

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New Horizons: Scalar and Vector Ultralight Dark Matter

Antypas¹,

Banerjee²,

Bartram³

et al. 2022

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The last decade has seen unprecedented effort in dark matter model building at all mass scales coupled with the design of numerous new detection strategies. Transformative advances in quantum technologies have led to a plethora of new high-precision quantum sensors and dark matter detection strategies for ultralight (< 10 eV) bosonic dark matter that can be described by an oscillating classical, largely coherent field. This white paper focuses on searches for wavelike scalar and vector dark matter candidates.

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Constraints on non-resonant photon-axion conversion from the Planck satellite data

Cited by 16 publications

References 74 publications

Spectral distortion constraints on photon injection from low-mass decaying particles

Spectral distortion constraints on photon injection from low-mass decaying particles

New horizons in cosmology with spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background

New Horizons: Scalar and Vector Ultralight Dark Matter

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