Detecting Axion-like particles using Cosmic Variance Cancellation with CMB and Radio surveys

arXiv:2603.08808 · astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-03-09 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-03-09

Updated: 2026-08-26

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Terminology

• Cosmic Microwave Background — 13× in this paper
• Core — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Simons Observatory — 5× in this paper
• Anisotropy — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Spectral Distortions — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Frequency Dependence — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fisher Information — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Non-Gaussianity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Primordial non-Gaussianity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Square Kilometre Array — 2× in this paper
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• CERN Axion Solar Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Coherence Length — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo — 1× in this paper
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Primordial Magnetic Fields — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Spectral Signature — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer — 1× in this paper

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• Precision prediction of a democratic up-family philic KSVZ axion model at the LHC
• SpectrAx: Spectral Search of Axion-Like Particles Using Multi-Band Observations of Galaxy Clusters from SKA, SO, CMB-S4 and eROSITA
• Axion-Induced Patchy Screening of the Cosmic Microwave Background
• Constraints on axions from patchy screening of the cosmic microwave background
• Anticipated Performance of the Square Kilometre Array -- Phase 1 (SKA1)
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• eROSITA Science Book: Mapping the Structure of the Energetic Universe
• Galaxy cluster magnetic fields from radio polarized emission
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• HEALPix -- a Framework for High Resolution Discretization, and Fast Analysis of Data Distributed on the Sphere
• Bayesian Methods in Cosmology
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• The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package
• CMB-HD: An Ultra-Deep, High-Resolution Millimeter-Wave Survey Over Half the Sky

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