21-cm line Anomaly: A brief Status
arXiv:1907.13384
Abstract
In this short review I present the status of the global 21-cm signal detected by EDGES in March 2018. It is organized in three parts. First, I present the EDGES experiment and the fitting procedure used by the collaboration to extract the tiny 21-cm signal from large foregrounds of galactic synchrotron emission. Then, I review the physics behind the global 21-cm signature and I explain why the measured absorption feature is anomalous with respect to the predictions from standard astrophysics. I conclude with the implications for Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics coming from the EDGES discovery.
arXiv comment8 pages, 1 figure. v2: few typos corrected; contribution to "La Thuile 2019, Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d'Aoste" (conference number: C19-03-10)
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