15–18 Dec 2020
Online (Zoom)
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Can QCD Axion explain the CMB anisotropy?

17 Dec 2020, 16:00
20m
Online (Zoom)

Online (Zoom)

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Speaker

Dr Kiyoharu Kawana (SNU)

Description

In this talk, I discuss a possibility that the CMB anisotropy is dominantly generated by the primordial fluctuations of QCD axion under a circumstance that usual fluctuations by inflaton is too small to explain the anisotropy. The following conditions must be satisfied in this scenario: (i) sufficient amplitudes of the CMB anisotropy (ii) isocurvature constraint and (iii) non Gaussianity constraint. By carefully studying those conditions, I show that a large energy fraction $\Omega_A$ of the axion is necessary at the QCD phase transition, but simultaneously, it must become tiny at the present era due to the isocurvature constraint.

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