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The cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum is a powerful probe of the late-time universe, encoding valuable information about cosmological parameters such as the sum of neutrino masses and dark energy equation of state.…

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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…

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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…

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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

Searching for the signal of primordial gravitational waves in the B-modes (BB) power spectrum is one of the key scientific aims of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments. However, this could be easily contaminated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Si-Yu Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Mingzhe Li , Hong Li , Xinmin Zhang

We calculate the effect of gravitational lensing on the parity-odd power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization induced by axionlike particles (ALPs). Several recent works have reported a tantalizing hint of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Fumihiro Naokawa , Toshiya Namikawa

Cosmological Birefringence (CB) is a phenomenon, caused by parity violating modifications to electrodynamics, whereby the linear polarisation angle of light changes as photons traverse a vacuum. It is possible to use a number of different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Joel Williams , Aditya Rotti , Richard Battye

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 study a possibility of constraining isotropic cosmic birefringence with help of cosmic microwave background polarisation data in the presence of polarisation angle miscalibration without relying on any assumptions about the Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Baptiste Jost , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

We present a study on using delensing to enhance cosmic birefringence measurements based on full-sky, map-based simulations. In our analysis, we neglect foreground contamination and instrumental systematics to isolate the intrinsic impact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Anto Idicherian Lonappan

We consider the weak lensing effect induced by linear cosmological perturbations on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropies. We find that the amplitude of the lensing peak in the BB mode power spectrum is a faithful…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Viviana Acquaviva , Carlo Baccigalupi

Weak lensing distortion of the background cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization patterns by the foreground density fluctuations is well studied in the literature. We discuss the gravitational lensing modification to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chao Li , Asantha Cooray

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 $B$…

It was known that isocurvature perturbation of a nearly massless cosmological axion field can lead to rotation of $E$-mode polarization into $B$-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the presence of a parity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-28 Guo-Chin Liu , Kin-Wang Ng

Birefringence, the polarization-dependent splitting of light in anisotropic crystals, enables diverse optical phenomena and advanced functionalities such as optical communication, nonlinear optics, and quantum optics. However, conventional…

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The effect of weak gravitational lensing on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies and polarization will provide access to cosmological information that cannot be obtained from the primary anisotropies alone. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sarah Smith , Anthony Challinor , Graca Rocha

The anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide our best laboratory for testing models of the formation and evolution of large-scale structure. The rich features in the cosmic microwave background anisotropy spectrum, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhen Pan , Lloyd Knox , Martin White

We calculate the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode power spectrum resulting from anisotropic cosmic birefringence, without relying on the thin approximation of the last scattering surface. Specifically, we consider the influence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Toshiya Namikawa

We discuss a minimal canonical modification of electrodynamics in order to account for ultraviolet Lorentz violating effects. This modification creates a birefringence that rotates the polarization planes from different directions. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Gamboa , J. Lopez-Sarrion , A. P. Polychronakos

We present a new publicly available code, $\texttt{class_rot}$, which modifies $\texttt{class}$ to enable fast non-perturbative calculation of cosmic microwave background polarization power spectra due to both isotropic and anisotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Hongbo Cai , Yilun Guan
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