Parity Violation of Gravitons in the CMB Bispectrum

Abstract

We investigate the cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectra of the intensity (temperature) and polarization modes induced by the graviton non-Gaussianities, which arise from the parity-conserving and parity-violating Weyl cubic terms with time-dependent coupling. By considering the time-dependent coupling, we find that even in the exact de Sitter space time, the parity violation still appears in the three-point function of the primordial gravitational waves and could become large. Through the estimation of the CMB bispectra, we demonstrate that the signals generated from the parity-conserving and parity-violating terms appear in completely different configurations of multipoles. For example, the parity-conserving non-Gaussianity induces the nonzero CMB temperature bispectrum in the configuration with ${\sum }_{n=1}^3{\ell }_n=\mathrm{even}$ and, while due to the parity-violating non-Gaussianity, the CMB temperature bispectrum also appears for ${\sum }_{n=1}^3{\ell }_n=\mathrm{odd}$. This signal is just good evidence of the parity violation in the non-Gaussianity of primordial gravitational waves. We find that the shape of this non-Gaussianity is similar to the so-called equilateral one and the amplitudes of these spectra at large scale are roughly estimated as $|b_{\ell \ell \ell }|\sim {\ell }^{-4}\times 3.2\times 10^{-2}(\mathrm{GeV}/\Lambda {)}^2(r/0.1{)}^4$, where $\Lambda$ is an energy scale that sets the magnitude of the Weyl cubic terms (higher derivative corrections) and $r$ is a tensor-to-scalar ratio. Taking the limit for the nonlinearity parameter of the equilateral type as $f_{\mathrm{NL}}^{\mathrm{eq}}<300$, we can obtain a bound as $\Lambda \gtrsim 3\times 10^6\mathrm{GeV}$, assuming $r=0.1$.

23 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in PTP. Version 3 includes errata in Fig. 2

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