A CMB Millikan experiment with cosmic axiverse strings

Abstract We study axion strings of hyperlight axions coupled to photons. Hyperlight axions — axions lighter than Hubble at recombination — are a generic prediction of the string axiverse. These axions strings produce a distinct quantized polarization rotation of CMB photons which is O $$ \mathcal{O}...

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Main Authors: Prateek Agrawal, Anson Hook, Junwu Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-07-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)138