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Cosmic birefringence is an effect where the plane of polarisation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is rotated by an angle $\beta$ through coupling to a hypothetical parity-violating field. We analyse the Planck Public Release 4 (PR4…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Raelyn Marguerite Sullivan , Arefe Abghari , Patricia Diego-Palazuelos , Lukas Tobias Hergt , Douglas Scott

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 search for cosmic polarization rotation or birefringence in the CMB is well-motivated because it can provide powerful constraints on parity-violating new physics, such as axion-like particles. In this paper we point out that since the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Blake D. Sherwin , Toshiya Namikawa

The primary scientific target of the CMB polarization experiments that are currently being built and proposed is the detection of primordial tensor perturbations. As a byproduct, these instruments will significantly improve constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Levon Pogosian , Meir Shimon , Matthew Mewes , Brian Keating

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 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

The power spectrum of cosmic microwave background lensing is a powerful tool for constraining fundamental physics such as the sum of neutrino masses and the dark energy equation of state. Current lensing measurements primarily come from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Hongbo Cai , Yilun Guan , Toshiya Namikawa , Arthur Kosowsky

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

We present constraints on isotropic cosmic birefringence induced by axion-like particles (ALPs), derived from the analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization measurements obtained with the high-frequency channels of Planck.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Toshiya Namikawa , Kai Murai , Fumihiro Naokawa

We constrain anisotropic cosmic birefringence using four-point correlations of even-parity $E$-mode and odd-parity $B$-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background measurements made by the POLARization of the Background Radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-06 POLARBEAR Collaboration , Peter A. R. Ade , Kam Arnold , Matt Atlas , Carlo Baccigalupi , Darcy Barron , David Boettger , Julian Borrill , Scott Chapman , Yuji Chinone , Ari Cukierman , Matt Dobbs , Anne Ducout , Rolando Dunner , Tucker Elleflot , Josquin Errard , Giulio Fabbian , Stephen Feeney , Chang Feng , Adam Gilbert , Neil Goeckner-Wald , John Groh , Grantland Hall , Nils W. Halverson , Masaya Hasegawa , Kaori Hattori , Masashi Hazumi , Charles Hill , William L. Holzapfel , Yasuto Hori , Logan Howe , Yuki Inoue , Gregory C. Jaehnig , Andrew H. Jaffe , Oliver Jeong , Nobuhiko Katayama , Jonathan P. Kaufman , Brian Keating , Zigmund Kermish , Reijo Keskitalo , Theodore Kisner , Akito Kusaka , Maude Le Jeune , Adrian T. Lee , Erik M. Leitch , David Leon , Yun Li , Eric Linder , Lindsay Lowry , Frederick Matsuda , Tomotake Matsumura , Nathan Miller , Josh Montgomery , Michael J. Myers , Martin Navaroli , Haruki Nishino , Takahiro Okamura , Hans Paar , Julien Peloton , Levon Pogosian , Davide Poletti , Giuseppe Puglisi , Christopher Raum , Gabriel Rebeiz , Christian L. Reichardt , Paul L. Richards , Colin Ross , Kaja M. Rotermund , David E. Schenck , Blake D. Sherwin , Meir Shimon , Ian Shirley , Praween Siritanasak , Graeme Smecher , Nathan Stebor , Bryan Steinbach , Aritoki Suzuki , Jun-ichi Suzuki , Osamu Tajima , Satoru Takakura , Alexei Tikhomirov , Takayuki Tomaru , Nathan Whitehorn , Brandon Wilson , Amit Yadav , Alex Zahn , Oliver Zahn

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

We search for the signature of parity-violating physics in the Cosmic Microwave Background using Planck polarization data from the Public Release 4 (PR4 or $\mathtt{NPIPE}$). For nearly full-sky data, we initially find a birefringence angle…

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

We search for the signature of parity-violating physics in the cosmic microwave background, called cosmic birefringence, using the Planck data release 4. We initially find a birefringence angle of $\beta=0.30\pm0.11$ (68% C.L.) for nearly…

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

Cosmic birefringence is a parity-violating effect that might have rotated the plane of linearly polarized light of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by an angle $\beta$ since its emission. This has recently been measured to be non-zero…

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

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

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
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