Probing primordial chirality with galaxy spins [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01029


Chiral symmetry is maximally violated in weak interactions. In this letter, we propose a helicity measurement to detect primordial chiral violation. We point out that observations of galaxy angular momentum directions (spins), which are frozen in during the galaxy formation process, provide a fossil chiral observable. From the clustering-mode of large scale structure of the universe, we can construct a spin-mode in the Lagrangian space. In standard model, a strong symmetric correlation between the left and right helical components of this spin-mode and galaxy spins is expected. Measurements of these correlations will be sensitive to chiral breaking, providing a direct test of chiral symmetry breaking in the early universe.

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H. Yu, Y. Yu, P. Motloch, et. al.
Wed, 3 Apr 19
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Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures