CMB-S4 forecasts for constraints on fNL through μ-distortion anisotropy

David Zegeye, Federico Bianchini, J. Richard Bond, Jens Chluba, Thomas Crawford, Giulio Fabbian, Vera Gluscevic, Daniel Grin, J. Colin Hill, P. Daniel Meerburg, Giorgio Orlando, Bruce Partridge, Christian L. Reichardt, Mathieu Remazeilles, Douglas Scott, and Edward J. Wollack (The CMB-S4 Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. D 108, 103536 – Published 27 November 2023

Abstract

Diffusion damping of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum results from imperfect photon-baryon coupling in the pre-recombination plasma. Energy release at redshifts 5×104<z<2×106 can create μ-type spectral distortions of the CMB. These μ distortions trace the underlying photon density fluctuations, probing the primordial power spectrum in short-wavelength modes kS over the range 50Mpc1k104Mpc1. Small-scale power modulated by long-wavelength modes kL from squeezed-limit non-Gaussianities introduces cross correlations between CMB temperature anisotropies and μ distortions. Under single-field inflation models, μ×T correlations measured from an observer in an inertial frame should vanish up to a factor of (kL/kS)21. Thus, any measurable correlation rules out single-field inflation models. We forecast how well the next-generation ground-based CMB experiment CMB-S4 will be able to constrain primordial squeezed-limit non-Gaussianity, parametrized by fNL, using measurements of CμT as well as CμE from CMB E modes. Using current experimental specifications and foreground modeling, we expect σ(fNL)1000. This is roughly 4 times better than the current limit on fNL using μ×T and μ×E correlations from Planck and is comparable to what is achievable with LiteBIRD, demonstrating the power of the CMB-S4 experiment. This measurement is at an effective scale of k740Mpc1 and is thus highly complementary to measurements at larger scales from primary CMB and large-scale structure.

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  • Received 2 March 2023
  • Accepted 29 September 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.103536

© 2023 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

David Zegeye1,2,*, Federico Bianchini3, J. Richard Bond4, Jens Chluba5, Thomas Crawford1,2, Giulio Fabbian6,7, Vera Gluscevic8, Daniel Grin9, J. Colin Hill10, P. Daniel Meerburg11, Giorgio Orlando11, Bruce Partridge9, Christian L. Reichardt12, Mathieu Remazeilles13, Douglas Scott14, and Edward J. Wollack15 (The CMB-S4 Collaboration)

  • 1Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
  • 2Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
  • 3Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 4Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, 60 St. George Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada
  • 5Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL
  • 6Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Avenue, New York, New York 10010, USA
  • 7School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, United Kingdom
  • 8Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
  • 9Department of Physics and Astronomy, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, USA
  • 10Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
  • 11Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands
  • 12School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
  • 13Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), Avenida los Castros s/n, 39005 Santander, Spain
  • 14Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6225 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
  • 15NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA

  • *dzegeye@uchicago.edu

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Vol. 108, Iss. 10 — 15 November 2023

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