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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2020-07-01
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Series: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)138 |