Gravitational Lensing of the CMB: a Feynman Diagram Approach
arXiv:1403.2386 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.07.002
Abstract
We develop a Feynman diagram approach to calculating correlations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in the presence of distortions. As one application, we focus on CMB distortions due to gravitational lensing by Large Scale Structure (LSS). We study the Hu-Okamoto quadratic estimator for extracting lensing from the CMB and derive the noise of the estimator up to in the lensing potential . The previously noted large term can be significantly reduced by a reorganization of the expansion. Our approach makes it simple to obtain expressions for quadratic estimators based on any CMB channel. We briefly discuss other applications to cosmology of this diagrammatic approach, such as distortions of the CMB due to patchy reionization, or due to Faraday rotation from primordial axion fields.
arXiv comment5 pages, 8 figures, v2: journal version
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