Anomalous CMB polarization and gravitational chirality

Details Anomalous CMB polarization and gravitational chirality Anomalous CMB polarization and gravitational chirality

2008-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/0806.3082v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.101:141101,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.141101

We consider the possibility that gravity breaks parity, with left and right handed gravitons coupling to matter with a different Newton's constant and show that this would affect their zero-point vacuum fluctuations during inflation. Should there be a cosmic background of gravity waves, the effect would translate into anomalous CMB polarization. Non-vanishing TB (and EB) polarization components emerge, revealing interesting experimental targets. Indeed if reasonable chirality is present a TB measurement would provide the easiest way to detect a gravitational wave background. We speculate on the theoretical implications of such an observation.

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