Constraints on primordial magnetic fields from CMB distortions in the axiverse
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Abstract
Measuring spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is attracting considerable attention as a probe of high energy particle physics in the cosmological context, since primordial inflation explorer (PIXIE) and polarized radiation imaging and spectroscopy mission (PRISM) have recently been proposed. In this paper, CMB distortions due to resonant conversions between CMB photons and light axionlike particles (ALPs) are investigated, motivated by the string axiverse scenario which suggests the presence of a plenitude of light axion particles. The distortions due to resonant conversions have a frequency-independent shape, in contrast to $\ensuremath{\mu}$ and $y$ distortions. Therefore, one can distinguish the distortions due to resonant conversions from $\ensuremath{\mu}$ and $y$ distortions. Since these resonant conversions depend on the strength of primordial magnetic fields, constraints on CMB distortions can provide an upper limit on the product of the photon-ALP coupling constant $g$ and the comoving strength of primordial magnetic fields $B$. Potentially feasible constraints from PIXIE/PRISM can set a limit $gB\ensuremath{\lesssim}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}16}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{GeV}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}\text{ }\mathrm{nG}$ for ALP mass ${m}_{\ensuremath{\phi}}\ensuremath{\lesssim}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}14}\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{eV}$. Although this result is not a direct constraint on $g$ and $B$, it is significantly tighter than the product of the current upper limits on $g$ and $B$.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".