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Title: Does the large-angle correlation deficit appear in E-mode polarization?
Plain: The polarization of the microwave background is partly independent of its temperature pattern. If the missing large-angle correlation shows up there too, a fluke becomes much less likely.
Precise: Given the observed temperature map, compute the LCDM conditional distribution of the E-mode statistic S_1/2^EE and of the TE correlation at angles above 60 degrees; measure them on a full-sky E-mode map with cosmic-variance-limited noise at multipoles $\ell < 30$. Answer whether the observed values fall in the tails predicted by a physical suppression or follow LCDM.
Settled by: Full-sky large-angle E-mode maps from LiteBIRD or a comparable space mission.
Kind: well-posed
Answer type: yes-no
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Literature status: open
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