A Hidden Microwave Background? -- signatures of photon-WISP oscillations in the CMB

2010/02/02 by Javier Redondo, Redondo, Javier
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #astro-ph.CO #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1002.0447

4 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the 5th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

arxiv created 2010/02/02 · openalex publication_date 2010/02/02 · arxiv updated 2010/02/26 · openalex created_date 2022/09/15 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The existence and cosmological signatures of a relic background of very weakly interacting sub-eV particles (WISPs), produced by photon-WISP oscillations is reviewed.

Citations

• Diffuse Microwave Emission Survey

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