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The rotation of the linear polarisation plane of photons during propagation, also known as cosmic birefringence, is a powerful probe of parity-violating extensions of standard electromagnetism. Using Planck legacy data, we confirm previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 M. Ballardini , A. Gruppuso , S. Paradiso , S. S. Sirletti , P. Natoli

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 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

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

Cosmic birefringence (CB) is the rotation of the photons' linear polarisation plane during propagation. Such an effect is a tracer of parity-violating extensions of standard electromagnetism and would probe the existence of a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 E. de la Hoz , P. Diego-Palazuelos , J. Errard , A. Gruppuso , B. Jost , R. M. Sullivan , M. Bortolami , Y. Chinone , L. T. Hergt , E. Komatsu , Y. Minami , I. Obata , D. Paoletti , D. Scott , P. Vielva , D. Adak , R. Akizawa , A. Anand , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , A. Basyrov , M. Bersanelli , T. Brinckmann , F. Cacciotti , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , E. Carinos , A. Carones , F. Carralot , F. J. Casas , M. Citran , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , M. De Lucia , M. De Petris , S. Della Torre , E. Di Giorgi , H. K. Eriksen , E. Ferreira , F. Finelli , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , G. Galloni , M. Galloway , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , R. T. Génova-Santos , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Gjerløw , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , E. Hivon , H. Ishino , K. Kohri , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , M. Lembo , F. Levrier , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , S. Micheli , M. Migliaccio , M. Monelli , L. Montier , G. Morgante , R. Nagata , T. Namikawa , P. Natoli , A. Occhiuzzi , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , G. Pascual-Cisneros , V. Pavlidou , V. Pelgrims , F. Piacentini , G. Piccirilli , G. Polenta , L. Porcelli , N. Raffuzzi , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , A. Rizzieri , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , M. Ruiz-Granda , Y. Sakurai , J. Sanghavi , M. Shiraishi , S. L. Stever , Y. Takase , K. Tassis , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , B. van Tent , D. Watts , I. K. Wehus , G. Weymann-Despres , B. Winter , E. J. Wollack , Y. Zhou

We develop a method to constrain non-isotropic features of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization, of a type expected to arise in some models describing quantum gravity effects on light propagation. We describe the expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Giulia Gubitosi , Marina Migliaccio , Luca Pagano , Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Alessandro Melchiorri , Paolo Natoli , Gianluca Polenta

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

Cosmic Birefringence (CB) is a phenomenon in which the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is rotated as it travels through space due to the coupling between photons and an axion-like field. We look for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Alessandro Greco , Nicola Bartolo , Alessandro Gruppuso

Cosmic Microwave Background experiments must achieve very accurate calibration of their polarization reference frame to avoid biasing the cosmological parameters. In particular, a wrong or inaccurate calibration might mimic the presence of…

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 $B$…

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

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

In the context of the standard model of particles, the weak interaction of cosmic microwave background (CMB) and cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B), can generate non-vanishing TB and EB power spectra in the order of one loop forward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-27 Roohollah Mohammadi , Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Mahdi Sadegh , Ali Vahedi , She-sheng Xue

A tantalizing hint of isotropic cosmic birefringence has been found in the $E B$ cross-power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization data with a statistical significance of $3\sigma$. A pseudoscalar field coupled to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Kai Murai , Fumihiro Naokawa , Toshiya Namikawa , Eiichiro Komatsu

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

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

The recent measurement of baryonic acoustic oscillations by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument reveals a mild tension with observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) within the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Toshiya Namikawa

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

Cosmic birefringence is the in-vacuo, frequency independent rotation of the polarization plane of linearly polarized radiation, induced by a parity-violating term in the electromagnetic Lagrangian. We implement an harmonic estimator for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 G. Zagatti , M. Bortolami , A. Gruppuso , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , G. Fabbian

The observed pattern of linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons is a sensitive probe of physics violating parity symmetry under inversion of spatial coordinates. A new parity-violating interaction might have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Johannes R. Eskilt , Eiichiro Komatsu
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