Bursts from the very early universe

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2006-03-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603526v1

Phys.Lett.B639:14-20,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

eight pages, no figures, typo in metadata corrected

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2006.05.089

Bursts of weakly interacting particles such as neutrinos or even more weakly interacting particles such as wimps and gravitons from the very early universe would offer a much deeper ``look back time'' to early epochs than is possible with photons. We consider some of the issues related to the existence of such bursts and their detectability. Characterizing the burst rate by a probability $\cal P$ per Hubble four-volume we find, for events in the radiation-dominated era, that the natural unit of description is the present intensity of the CMB times $\cal P$. The existence of such bursts would make the observation of phenomena associated with very early times in cosmology at least conceptually possible. One might even hope to probe the transplanckian epoch if complexes more weakly interacting than the graviton can exist. Other conceivable applications include the potential detectability of the formation of "pocket" universes'' in a multiverse.

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