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The cosmological propagation of tensor perturbations is studied in the context of parity-violating extensions of the symmetric teleparallel equivalent of General Relativity theory. This non-Riemannian formulation allows for a wider variety…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Aindriú Conroy , Tomi Koivisto

We perform a wavelet analysis of the temperature and polarization maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) delivered by the WMAP experiment in search for a parity violating signal. Such a signal could be seeded by new physics beyond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paolo Cabella , Paolo Natoli , Joseph Silk

We report the strictest observational verification of CPT invariance in the photon sector, as a result of gamma-ray polarization measurement of distant gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are brightest stellar-size explosions in the universe. We…

We present a study of parity (P) violating polarization rotations of atoms in external electric fields. Five different types of rotations are identified and the consequences of time reversal invariance (T) are discussed. The role played by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 G. W. Botz , D. Bruß , O. Nachtmann

We use the Fisher-matrix formalism to investigate whether the galaxy bispectrum in redshift space, $B$, contains additional cosmological information with respect to the power spectrum, $P$. We focus on a $Euclid$-like survey and consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-10 Victoria Yankelevich , Cristiano Porciani

We show that the galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF) can test for cosmological parity violation. The detection of cosmological parity violation would reflect previously unknown forces present at the earliest moments of the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-26 Robert N. Cahn , Zachary Slepian , Jiamin Hou

An investigation is performed of the Lorentz-violating electrodynamics extracted from the renormalizable sector of the general Lorentz- and CPT-violating standard-model extension. Among the unconventional properties of radiation arising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes

P-violation of the nuclear weak force was hitherto believed to manifest itself only in asymmetric $\beta$-emission due to neutron decay. Molecules with space asymmetry (like L and D amino acids) are affected by this parity violation,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Avshalom C. Elizur , Meir Shinitzky

The local position invariance (LPI) is one of the three major pillars of Einstein equivalence principle, ensuring the space-time independence on the outcomes of local experiments. The LPI has been tested by measuring the gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Shohei Saga , Atsushi Taruya , Michel-Andrès Breton , Yann Rasera

A decay of the gravitino dark matter is an attractive candidate to explain the current excesses of the PAMELA/ATIC cosmic-ray data. However, R-parity violations are required to be very tiny in low-energy scale. We suggest a R-parity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-28 Motoi Endo , Tetsuo Shindou

Cosmological Birefringence (CB), a rotation of the polarization plane of radiation coming to us from distant astrophysical sources, may reveal parity violation in either the electromagnetic or gravitational sectors of the fundamental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Amit P. S. Yadav , Meir Shimon , Brian G. Keating

We review the methods used to test for the existence of cosmological birefringence, i.e. a rotation of the plane of linear polarization for electromagnetic radiation traveling over cosmological distances, which might arise in a number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Sperello di Serego Alighieri

Einstein's equivalence principle suggests a deep connection between matter and spacetime, prompting the question: if matter violates parity, must gravity? This letter explores the detection of parity violation in gravity using gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-25 Indranil Chakraborty , Susmita Jana , S. Shankaranarayanan

The examination of parity symmetry in gravitational interactions has drawn increasing attention. Although Einstein's General Relativity is parity-conserved, numerous theories of parity-violating (PV) gravity in different frameworks have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Jin Qiao , Zhao Li , Tao Zhu , Ran Ji , Guoliang Li , Wen Zhao

We show that local parity violation due to chirality imbalance in relativistic nuclear collisions can be revealed by measuring the projection of the polarization vector onto the momentum, i.e. the helicity, of final state baryons. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-08 F. Becattini , M. Buzzegoli , A. Palermo , G. Prokhorov

We study whether gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black hole (BBH) mergers show a difference between right- and left-handed circular polarizations. Such a difference could point to a violation of parity symmetry in gravity. We analyze…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 Elena Emtsova , Ofek Birnholtz

We report the results of testing gravitational-wave birefringence using the largest population of gravitational-wave events currently available. Gravitational-wave birefringence, which can arise from the effective field theory extension of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-19 Yi-Fan Wang , Stephanie M. Brown , Lijing Shao , Wen Zhao

The polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) can serve as a probe for nonstandard parity violating interactions. Many such interactions are predicted in particle physics models arising from theories with extra…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. R. S. Balaji , Robert H. Brandenberger , Damien A. Easson

Precision CP violation measurements in rare hadronic B decays could provide clean signatures of parity symmetric new physics, implying the existence of SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R x U(1)_{B-L} x P symmetry at high energies. New contributions to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander L. Kagan

The latest observational data of Planck satellite shows nontrivial value of polarization rotation angle caused by cosmic birefringence in the early universe. Moreover, the asymmetry of baryons versus anti-baryons still remains mysterious.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Zhiyuan Yu , Zhengsheng Yang , Taotao Qiu