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Parametric Tension Between Even and Odd Multipole Data of the WMAP Power Spectrum: Unaccounted Contamination or Missing Parameters?
There exists power contrast in even and odd multipoles of the WMAP power spectrum at low and intermediate multipole ranges. This anomaly is explicitly associated with the angular power spectrum, which is heavily used for cosmological model fitting. Having noted this, we have investigated whether even (odd) multipole data set is individually consistent with the WMAP concordance model. Our investigation shows that the WMAP concordance model does not make a good fit for even (odd) multipole data set, which indicates parametric tension between even and odd multipole data set. Noting that tension is highest in primordial power spectrum parameters, we have additionally considered a running spectral index, but found that tension increases to even a higher level. We believe these parametric tensions may be indications of unaccounted contamination or imperfection of the model.
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THE GAUSS–LEGENDRE SKY PIXELIZATION FOR THE CMB POLARIZATION (GLESP-POL) ERRORS DUE TO PIXELIZATION OF THE CMB SKY
We present the development of the method for numerical analysis of polarization in the Gauss–Legendre sky pixelization (GLESP) scheme for CMB maps. This incorporation of the polarization transforms in the pixelization scheme GLESP completes the creation of our new method for numerical analysis of CMB maps. A comparison of GLESP and HEALPix calculations is done.
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CMB data constraint on self-annihilation of dark matter particles
Recently, self‐annihilation of dark matter particles is proposed to explain the “WMAP Haze” and excess of energetic positrons and electrons in ATIC and PAMELA results. If self‐annihilation of dark matter occurs around the recombination of cosmic plasma, energy release from self‐annihilation of dark matter delays the recombination, and hence affects CMB anisotropy. By using the recent CMB data, we have investigated the self‐annihilation of dark matter particles. In this investigation, we do not find statistically significant evidence, and impose an upper bound on 〈σν〉/mϰ.The upcoming data from Planck surveyor and the Fermi Gamma‐ray telescope will allow us to break some of parameter degeneracy and improve constraints on self‐annihilation of dark matter particles.
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How accurately can we measure the hydrogen 2S->1S transition rate from the cosmological data?
Recent progress in observational cosmology, and especially the forthcoming PLANCK mission data, open new directions in so-called precision cosmology. In this paper we illustrate this statement considering the accuracy of cosmological determination of the two-quanta decay rate of 2s hydrogen atom state. We show that the PLANCK data will allow us to measure this decay rate significantly better than in the laboratory experiments.
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How to make a clean separation between CMB E and B modes with proper foreground masking
We investigate the E/B decomposition of CMB polarization on a masked sky. In real space, operators of E and B mode decomposition involve only differentials of CMB polarization. We may, therefore in principle, perform a clean E/B decomposition from incomplete sky data. Since it is impractical to apply second derivatives to observation data, we usually rely on spherical harmonic transformation and inverse transformation, instead of using real-space operators. In spherical harmonic representation, jump discontinuities in a cut sky produces Gibbs phenomenon, unless a spherical harmonic expansion is made up to an infinitely high multipole. By smoothing a foreground mask, we may suppress the Gibbs phenomenon effectively in a similar manner to apodization of a foreground mask discussed in other works. However, we incur foreground contamination by smoothing a foreground mask, because zero-value pixels in the original mask may be rendered non-zero by the smoothing process. In this work, we investigate an optimal foreground mask, which ensures proper foreground masking and suppresses Gibbs phenomenon. We apply our method to a simulated map of the pixel resolution comparable to the Planck satellite. The simulation shows that the leakage power is lower than unlensed CMB B mode power spectrum of tensor-to-scalar ratio r ∼ 1 × 10 −7 . We compare the result with that of the original mask. We find that the leakage power is reduced by a factor of 10 6 ∼ 10 9 at the cost of a sky fraction 0.07, and that that the enhancement is highest at lowest multipoles. We confirm that all the zero-value pixels in the original mask remain zero in our mask. The application of this method to the Planck data will improve the detectability of primordial tensor perturbation.
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Alfv\'en turbulence in the WMAP 5 year data and a forecast for the PLANCK
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Model-dependent axion as quintessence with almost massless hidden sector quarks
A pseudo-Goldstone boson for quintessence is known to require the decay constant Fq ~ MP and the height of the potential (0.003 eV)4, and hence the pseudo-Goldstone boson mass of order 10−33 eV. The model-dependent axion in some superstring models is suggested as a good candidate for the quintessence. We realize this idea with a hidden-sector gauge group SU(3)H × U(1)H. The hidden-sector instanton contribution to the quintessence potential is suppressed by the almost massless hidden-sector quarks. The model-independent axion is the QCD axion required for the strong CP solution.
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Axion as a fundamental entity in the universe
I comment on Sikivie’s remarkable achievements in particle physics and cosmology which include the introduction of the E6 grand unification idea, axions as cold dark matter components, and axion search experiments.
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Constraints on the $R$-parity violating minimal supersymmetric standard model with neutrino masses from multilepton studies at the LHC
In a recent paper, we proposed a hierarchical ansatz for the lepton-number-violating trilinear Yukawa couplings of the R-parity violating minimal supersymmetric standard model. As a result, the number of free parameters in the lepton-number-violating sector was reduced from 36 to 6. Neutrino oscillation data fixes these six parameters, which also uniquely determines the decay modes of the lightest supersymmetric particle and thus governs the collider signature at the LHC. A typical signature of our model consists of multiple leptons in the final state and significantly reduced missing transverse momentum compared to models with R-parity conservation. In this work, we present exclusion limits on our model based on multilepton searches performed at the Large Hadron Collider with 7 TeV center-of-mass energy in 2011 while accommodating a 125 GeV Higgs.
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‘Stop’ that ambulance! New physics at the LHC?
A bstractA number of LHC searches now display intriguing excesses. Most prominently, the measurement of the W+W− cross-section has been consistently ∼ 20% higher than the theoretical prediction across both ATLAS and CMS for both 7 and 8 TeV runs. More recently, supersymmetric searches for final states containing two or three leptons have also seen more events than predicted in certain signal regions. We show that a supersymmetric model containing a light stop, winos and binos can consistently match the data. We perform a fit to all measurements and searches that may be sensitive to our model and find a reduction in the log-likelihood of 15.4 compared to the Standard Model which corresponds to 3.5-σ once the extra degrees of freedom in the fit are considered.
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String Compactification and Unification of Forces
I review our recent attempts toward obtaining the MSSM from string orbifold compactification. The required constraints are the existence of three families and R parity, vectorlike exotics, one pair of Higgs doublets, and the SU(5)′ hidden sector for dynamical breaking of SUSY toward a GMSB scenario. We also comment on the threshold correction which are influenced by a power law evolution of gauge couplings through the KK radius in non‐prime orbifolds and can be used to fit the couplings.