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A polarized gamma ray emission spread over a sufficiently wide energy band from a strongly magnetized astrophysical object like gamma ray bursts (GRBs) offers an opportunity to test the hypothesis of invisible axion. The axionic induced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Rubbia , A. S. Sakharov

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) can be produced in Gamma Ray Bursts, altering the polarization of the electromagnetic emission in these events. For the first time, we derive bounds on the axion-photon coupling from polarization measurements of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Nissim Fraija , Gonzalo Herrera

Various satellite-borne missions are being planned whose goal is to measure the polarization of a large number of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We show that the polarization pattern predicted by current models of GRB emission can be drastically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Nicola Bassan , Alessandro Mirizzi , Marco Roncadelli

Photons couple to Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) or more generally to any pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson in the presence of an external electromagnetic field. Mixing between photons and ALPs in the strong magnetic field of a Gamma-Ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-18 Olga Mena , Soebur Razzaque , F. Villaescusa-Navarro

Polarimetric features during the prompt phase of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) have been essential for elucidating the debated emission mechanisms and gaining insight into the inner structure of GRBs. However, the potential impact of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-19 Qingxiang Zhang , Feng Huang , Zhongxiang Wang , Taotao Fang

We propose that axion-like particles (ALPs) with a two-photon vertex, consistent with all astrophysical and laboratory bounds, may lead to a detectable signature in the spectra of high-energy gamma ray sources. This occurs as a result of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Hooper , Pasquale D. Serpico

The mixing of photons with axion-like particles (ALPs) in the large-scale magnetic field $B$ changes the polarization angle of a linearly polarized photon beam from active galactic nuclei in radio galaxies as it propagates over cosmological…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-13 D. Horns , L. Maccione , A. Mirizzi , M. Roncadelli

Axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) are one of the promising dark matter (DM) candidates. A prevalent method to detect axion-like DM is to seek periodic oscillation in the polarization angles (PAs) of linearly polarized light emitted from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-03 Bao Wang , Xuan Yang , Jun-Jie Wei , Song-Bo Zhang , Xue-Feng Wu

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model and give rise to characteristic dimming and polarization effects in a light beam travelling in a magnetic field. In this Letter, we demonstrate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandro De Angelis , Oriana Mansutti , Marco Roncadelli

We study the detectability of GeV-band gamma-ray polarization with the AMS-02 experiment and its proposed successor AMS-100, from Galactic and extragalactic sources. Characterizing gamma-ray polarization in this energy range could shed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-20 Xiuyuan Zhang , Yi Jia , Tracy R. Slatyer

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can be produced in the hot dense plasma of fireballs that develop in the initial stage of $\gamma$-ray burst (GRB) outflows. They can transport an enormous amount of energy away from the jet by propagating out of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-16 Oindrila Ghosh , Sunniva Jacobsen , Tim Linden

Both observations and theoretical models suggest that the emissions in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and the afterglows are beamed. We argue that the recent polarization measured in the afterglows gives further evidence of beaming in GRBs. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. S. Cheng , J. H. Fan , Z. G. Dai

Evidence of polarized $\gamma$-ray emission ($>$ 50 keV) from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) has been accumulated in recent years. Measurements have been reported with levels in the range of 30-80\%, typically with limited statistical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Mark L. McConnell

The hard X-ray polarimeter POLAR aims to measure the linear polarization of the 50-500 keV photons arriving from the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The position in the sky of the detected GRBs is needed to determine their level…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-17 E. Suarez-Garcia , D. Haas , W. Hajdas , G. Lamanna , C. Lechanoine-Leluc , R. Marcinkowski , A. Mtchedlishvili , S. Orsi , M. Pohl , N. Produit , D. Rapin , D. Rybka , J. -P. Vialle

The polarization of the prompt $\gamma$-ray emission has been measured in four bright gamma ray bursts (GRBs). It was nearly maximal in all cases, as predicted by the Cannonball (CB) model of GRBs long before the observations. These results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar , A. De Rujula

To achieve confident non-zero polarization measurements for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) we need sensitive polarimeters and bright GRBs. Here we report on the polarimetric analysis of the bright GRB 180720B using the \Fermi Gamma-ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-26 P. Veres , W. Duvall , A. Goldstein , M. S. Briggs , J. E. Grove

The recently measured 3.5 keV line in a number of galaxy clusters, the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and the Milky Way (MW) center can be well accounted for by a scenario in which dark matter decays to axion-like particles (ALPs) and subsequently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-16 Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Hua Feng

About one month after the revolutionary discovery of the Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) GRB 221009A and intense theoretical efforts to explain its detection, time seems to us ripe to make an assessment of the axion-like particle (ALP) based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli , Fabrizio Tavecchio

The propagation of a relativistic electron-positron beam in a magnetized electron-ion plasma is studied, focusing on the polarization of the radiation generated in this case. Special emphasis is laid on investigating the polarization of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Ujjwal Sinha , Naveen Kumar

The recent claim of a high degree of linear polarization in the prompt gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission of GRB 021206 might have important implications for the underlying mechanism ultimately responsible for the GRB radiation. While the claim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Curioni , N. Mirabal
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