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  • 5 - CMB Polarization and the Total Angular Momentum Approach

  • Ruth Durrer, Université de Genève
  • Book:
    The Cosmic Microwave Background
    Published online:
    10 December 2020
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 208-243

  • Summary

    We derive the perturbed Boltzmann equation for CMB photons. After a brief introduction to relativistic kinetic theory, we first derive the Liouville equation, i.e. the Boltzmann equation without collision term. We also discuss the connection between the distribution function and the energy{momentum tensor. We then derive the collision term, i.e. the right-hand side of the Boltzmann equation, due to Thomson scattering of photons and electrons. In this first attempt we neglect the polarization dependence of Thomson scattering. This treatment however includes the finite thickness of the last scattering surface and Silk damping. The chapter ends with a list of the full system of perturbation equations for a ΛCDM universe, including massless neutrinos.