Yang-Mills thermodynamics of photons and its application in cosmology and astroparticle physics / this dissertation was carried out by Janning Meinert. Wuppertal, 17th of February 2025
Content
- Introduction
- Project a): UHECR Anisotropy and Composition
- Project b): UHECRs as Probe of the CMB Photon Density
- Project c): Frequency-Redshift Evolution
- Project d): Blackbody Anomaly at Low Temperatures
- Project e): Electroweak Parameters
- Project f): The Dark Sector in Yang-Mills Thermodynamics
- Anisotropy and UHECR Flux Composition
- Introduction
- Latency of UHECRs in PlanckJF12b
- Flux Modulation induced Anisotropy
- Summary and Outlook
- Appendix
- Simulation Setup
- T-z Relation and UHECR Propagation
- Introduction
- T(z) Relation of SU(2)CMB
- Changes in Propagation Length
- Observational Consequences for UHECR Energy Spectra
- Cosmogenic Neutrinos
- Summary
- Frequency–Redshift Relation of the CMB
- Introduction
- Observational T-z Relation Extractions from a v-z Relation
- Absorber Clouds in the Line of Sight of a Quasar or a Bright Galaxy
- The Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
- T-z Relation and -z Relation in SU(2)CMB: Theoretical Basis
- T-z Relation in SU(2)CMB
- Anisotropic Photon Emission by Electrons
- Thermalisation-Dependent Mixing of Two SU(2) Gauge Theories
- Summary
- Search for a Blackbody Anomaly
- Introduction
- Experimental Setup and Noise-Power Amplification
- Experimental Results
- Interpretation of Noise-Power Excess at Low Temperatures
- Discussion and Summary
- Electroweak Parameters from YMTD
- Introduction
- Three Phases of SU(2) Yang-Mills Thermodynamics
- Deconfining phase (I)
- Preconfining phase (II)
- Confining phase (III)
- Summary of phase structure of SU(2) Yang-Mills thermodynamics
- Selfintersecting Center-Vortex Loop and Magnetic Moment
- Value of Electromagnetic Fine-Structure Constant
- Trapping a single monopole or antimonopole inside the droplet's bulk
- Thin-shell approximation
- Averaging the droplet's effective charge over monopole locations
- SU(2) Gauge Group Mixing in the Droplet
- Thermal SU(2) gauge-theory mixing and comparison with electroweak theory
- Mixing angle 0W
- Value of alpha
- Impact of mixing on mass formula and length-scale hierarchy in powers of alpha
- Discussion and Summary
- The Dark Sector in YMTD
- Introduction
- Axion Mass Squared via The Veneziano-Witten Formula at Finite Temperature
- The Veneziano-Witten Integral for Deconfining SU(2) YMTD
- The topological susceptibility on a Harrington-Shepard (anti)caloron
- Do thermal quasiparticle fluctuations contribute to chi?
- Cosmological Implications: Bose Condensation of Axions
- Summary and Outlook
- Summary and Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- Bibliography