Quintessential interpretation of the evolving dark energy in light of DESI observations

Y Tada, T Terada - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The recent result of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in combination with
other cosmological data shows evidence of the evolving dark energy parametrized by the w …

Cosmic birefringence from the Axiverse

S Gasparotto, EI Sfakianakis - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We revisit the evidence for CMB birefringence in the context of a rich Axiverse. Using
probability density functions (PDFs) for various axion parameters, such as the mass and …

COSMOGLOBE DR1 results-I. Improved Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe maps through Bayesian end-to-end analysis

DJ Watts, A Basyrov, JR Eskilt, M Galloway… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present COSMOGLOBE Data Release 1, which implements the first joint analysis of
WMAP and Planck LFI time-ordered data, processed within a single Bayesian end-to-end …

Axionic defects in the CMB: birefringence and gravitational waves

RZ Ferreira, S Gasparotto, T Hiramatsu… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The evidence for a non-vanishing isotropic cosmic birefringence in recent analyses of the
CMB data provides a tantalizing hint for new physics. Domain wall (DW) networks have …

Parity-violating scalar trispectrum from a rolling axion during inflation

T Fujita, T Murata, I Obata… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We study a mechanism of generating the trispectrum (4-point correlation) of curvature
perturbation through the dynamics of a spectator axion field and U (1) gauge field during …

Constraining ultralight ALP dark matter in light of cosmic birefringence

D Zhang, EGM Ferreira, I Obata, T Namikawa - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Cosmic birefringence, the observed rotation of the polarization plane of the cosmic
microwave background (CMB), serves as a compelling probe for parity-violating physics …

Measures of non-Gaussianity in axion-string-induced CMB birefringence

R Hagimoto, AJ Long - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The presence of axion strings in the Universe after recombination can leave an imprint on
the polarization pattern of the cosmic microwave background radiation through the …

Induced domain walls of QCD axion, and gravitational waves

J Lee, K Murai, F Takahashi, W Yin - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that heavy axion domain walls induce domain walls of the QCD axion through a
mixing between the heavy axion and the QCD axion, even when the pre-inflationary initial …

Axion couplings in heterotic string theory

P Agrawal, M Nee, M Reig - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.03820, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study the coupling of axions to gauge bosons in heterotic string theory. The axion-gauge
boson couplings in the low energy 4d theory are derived by matching mixed anomalies …

phase ambiguity of cosmic birefringence

F Naokawa, T Namikawa, K Murai, I Obata… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We point out that the rotation angle $\beta $ of cosmic birefringence, which is a recently
reported parity-violating signal in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), has a phase …