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In this paper we use the current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to test the Charge-Parity-Time Reversal (CPT) symmetry. We consider a CPT-violating interaction in the photon sector $\mathcal{L}_{\rm cs}\sim p_\mu…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Si-Yu Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Mingzhe Li , Hong Li , Xinmin Zhang

The electrodynamics modified by the Chern-Simons term $\mathcal{L}_{cs}\sim p_{\mu}A_{\nu}\tilde F^{\mu\nu}$ with a non-vanishing $p_{\mu}$ violates the {\it Charge-Parity-Time Reversal} symmetry (CPT) and rotates the linear polarizations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Jun-Qing Xia , Hong Li , Xinmin Zhang

In this paper we study the possibility of testing \emph{CPT} symmetry with Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements. Working with an effective lagrangian of the photon with \emph{CPT} violation ${\cal L} \sim p_{\mu}A_{\nu}\tilde…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-07 Jun-Qing Xia , Hong Li , Xiulian Wang , Xinmin Zhang

In this Letter we update our previous result on the test of CPT symmetry with Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements. A CPT violating interaction in the photon sector ${\cal L}_{cs} \sim p_{\mu}A_{\nu}\tilde F^{\mu\nu}$ gives rise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Jun-Qing Xia , Hong Li , Gong-Bo Zhao , Xinmin Zhang

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

Cosmological CPT violation will rotate the polarized direction of CMB photons, convert partial CMB E mode into B mode and vice versa. It will generate non-zero EB, TB spectra and change the EE, BB, TE spectra. This phenomenon gives us a way…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Hua Zhai , Si-Yu Li , Mingzhe Li , Xinmin Zhang

We search for signatures of Lorentz and $CPT$ violations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies by using the WMAP and the 2003 flight of BOOMERANG (B03) data. We note that if the Lorentz and $CPT$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Bo Feng , Mingzhe Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Xuelei Chen , Xinmin Zhang

Recent measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background $B$-mode polarization power spectrum by the BICEP2 and POLARBEAR experiments have demonstrated new precision tools for probing fundamental physics. Regardless of origin, the fact that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-02 Jonathan Kaufman , Brian Keating , Brad Johnson

A dark energy scalar (or a function of the Ricci scalar) coupled with the derivative to the matter fields will violate the $CPT$ symmetry during the expansion of the Universe. This type of cosmological $CPT$ violation helps to generate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Mingzhe Li , Xinmin Zhang

We study the reconstruction of the cosmic rotation power spectrum produced by parity-violating physics, with an eye to ongoing and near future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments such as BICEP Array, CMBS4, LiteBIRD and Simons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Toshiya Namikawa

STPpol, POLARBEAR and BICEP2 have recently measured the cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization in various sky regions of several tens of square degrees and obtained BB power spectra in the multipole range 20-3000, detecting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-14 Sperello di Serego Alighieri , Wei-Tou Ni , Wei-Ping Pan

In this paper, we review the approach leading to cosmic polarization rotation observation and present the current status with an outlook. In the study of the relations among equivalence principles, we found that long-range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Wei-Tou Ni

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a fundamental observational tool in modern cosmology. The linear polarization of the CMB provides a crucial observational tool for exploring new physics, including the inflationary paradigm and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Vyoma Muralidhara

The linear polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is highly sensitive to parity-violating physics at the surface of last scattering, which might cause mixing of E and B modes, an effect known as {\it cosmic birefringence}.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Nils A. Nilsson , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte

The Planck experiment has measured the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) angular spectrum with unprecedented accuracy, and these results are likely to remain the state-of-the art for a decade or more. Since these measurements are going to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Julia Stadler , Céline Bœhm

We perform a comprehensive study of the signatures of Lorentz violation in electrodynamics on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. In the framework of the minimal Standard Model Extension (SME), we consider effects generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-14 Luca Caloni , Serena Giardiello , Margherita Lembo , Martina Gerbino , Giulia Gubitosi , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Luca Pagano

In this paper we study in detail the effect of our recently proposed model of parity and charge-parity (PCP) violating varying alpha on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photon passing through the intra galaxy-cluster medium (ICM). The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-16 Debaprasad Maity , Pisin Chen

Recent measurements of the temperature field of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provide tantalising evidence for violation of Statistical Isotropy (SI) that constitutes a fundamental tenet of contemporary cosmology. CMB space based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Suvodip Mukherjee , Tarun Souradeep

Circular polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) offers a promising probe of the parity-violating physics of the early universe. In this paper, we propose a novel method to constrain the primordial circular polarization of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Ashu Kushwaha , Rajeev Kumar Jain

Chern-Simons gravity coupled to the scalar sector through a generic coupling function $f(\phi)$ can be tested at the very high energies of the inflationary period. In 1706.04627, we computed the theoretical parity breaking signatures of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-28 Nicola Bartolo , Giorgio Orlando , Maresuke Shiraishi
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