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Cosmic birefringence$-$the rotation of the polarization plane of light as it traverses the universe$-$offers a direct observational window into parity-violating physics beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we revisit the anisotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 A. I. Lonappan , B. Keating , K. Arnold

We show that the cosmic birefringence and miscalibrated polarisation angles can be determined simultaneously by cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments using the cross-correlation between $E$- and $B$-mode polarisation data. This is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-30 Yuto Minami , Hiroki Ochi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Nobuhiko Katayama , Eiichiro Komatsu , Tomotake Matsumura

Parity-violating extensions of Maxwell electromagnetism induce a rotation of the linear polarization plane of photons during propagation. This effect, known as cosmic birefringence, impacts on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Alessandro Greco , Nicola Bartolo , Alessandro Gruppuso

The polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to constrain cosmological birefringence, the rotation of the linear polarization of CMB photons potentially induced by parity violating physics beyond the standard model.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 A. Gruppuso , M. Gerbino , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , N. Mandolesi , D. Molinari

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

Cosmic birefringence (CB) is a promising probe of parity-violating physics beyond the Standard Model, characterized by the rotation of the linear polarization plane of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons. This effect, quantified by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jiazheng Dou , Wen Zhao

The study of cosmic birefringence through Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments is a key research area in cosmology and particle physics, providing a critical test for Lorentz and CPT symmetries. This paper focuses on an upcoming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-18 Yiwei Zhong , Hongbo Cai , Si-Yu Li , Yang Liu , Mingzhe Li , Wenjuan Fang

Parity violating physics beyond the standard model of particle physics induces a rotation of the linear polarization of photons. This effect, also known as cosmological birefringence (CB), can be tested with the observations of the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Alessandro Gruppuso , Gianmarco Maggio , Diego Molinari , Paolo Natoli

We present the first constraints on multipole-dependent cosmic birefringence using CMB polarization data from the BK18 dataset, which combines observations from BICEP2, Keck Array, and BICEP3 at frequencies of 95, 150, and 220 GHz. Photon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Keck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , Zeeshan Ahmed , Mandana Amiri , Denis Barkats , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Colin A. Bischoff , Dominic Beck , James J. Bock , Hans Boenish , Victor Buza , Brianna Cantrall , James R. Cheshire , Jake Connors , James Cornelison , Michael Crumrine , Ari Jozef Cukierman , Edward Denison , Lionel Duband , Michael Echter , Miranda Eiben , Brodi D. Elwood , Sofia Fatigoni , Jeffrey P. Filippini , Antonio Fortes , Min Gao , Christos Giannakopoulos , Neil Goeckner-Wald , David C. Goldfinger , Stephen Gratton , James A. Grayson , Annsley Greathouse , Paul K. Grimes , Grantland Hall , George Halal , Mark Halpern , Emma Hand , Sam A. Harrison , Shawn Henderson , Thuong Hoang , Johannes Hubmayr , Howard Hui , Kent D. Irwin , Jae Hwan Kang , Kirit S. Karkare , Sinan Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , Chao-Lin Kuo , Kekoa Lasko , King Lau , Margaret Lautzenhiser , Amber Lennox , Tongtian Liu , Scott Mackey , Nolan Maher , Koko G. Megerian , Lorenzo Minutolo , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Yuka Nakato , H. T. Nguyen , Roger O'Brient , Scott Paine , Anika Patel , Matthew A. Petroff , Anna R. Polish , Thomas Prouve , Clement Pryke , Carl D. Reintsema , Steffen Richter , Thibault Romand , Maria Salatino , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin Schmitt , Robert Schwarz , Chris D. Sheehy , Baibhav Singari , Ahmed Soliman , Tyler St Germaine , Aaron Steiger , Bryan Steinbach , Rashmi Sudiwala , Grant Teply , Keith L. Thompson , Carole Tucker , Anthony D. Turner , Clara Vergès , Abigail G. Vieregg , Albert Wandui , Alexis C. Weber , Justin Willmert , Chin Lin Wong , Wai Ling K. Wu , Hung-I Yang , Cyndia Yu , Lingzhen Zeng , Cheng Zhang , Silvia Zhang

Recently ACTPol has measured the cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode and E-mode polarizations and obtained TE, EE, BB, TB and EB power spectra in the multipole range 225-8725. In our previous paper (Ap. J. 792 (2014) 35 [Paper I]), we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-09 Hsien-Hao Mei , Wei-Tou Ni , Wei-Ping Pan , Lixin Xu , Sperello di Serego Alighieri

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

Parity-violating extensions of standard electromagnetism produce cosmic birefringence, the in vacuo rotation of the linear polarisation direction of a photon during propagation. We employ {\it Planck} 2018 CMB polarised data to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Alessandro Gruppuso , Diego Molinari , Paolo Natoli , Luca Pagano

We constrain parity-violating interactions to the surface of last scattering using spectra from the QUaD experiment's second and third seasons of observations by searching for a possible systematic rotation of the polarization directions of…

Cosmic birefringence, arising from a potential parity-violating interaction between cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons and evolving pseudo-scalar fields such as axion-like particles, can rotate the CMB polarization plane and induce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Mathieu Remazeilles

A Chern-Simons coupling of a new scalar field to electromagnetism may give rise to cosmological birefringence, a rotation of the linear polarization of electromagnetic waves as they propagate over cosmological distances. Prior work has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Vera Gluscevic , Duncan Hanson , Marc Kamionkowski , Christopher M. Hirata

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

Cosmic Birefringence (CB) is the in-vacuo rotation of the linear polarization direction of photons during propagation, caused by parity-violating extensions of Maxwell electromagnetism. We build low resolution CB angle maps using Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-30 Marco Bortolami , Matteo Billi , Alessandro Gruppuso , Paolo Natoli , Luca Pagano

In this work, we construct foreground-marginalised versions of the SPT-3G D1 and SPTpol cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarisation likelihoods. The compression is performed using the CMB-lite framework and we use the resulting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 L. Balkenhol , A. Coerver , C. L. Reichardt , J. A. Zebrowski

The polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to search for parity-violating processes like that predicted by a Chern-Simons coupling to a light pseudoscalar field. Such an interaction rotates $E$ modes into $B$…

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