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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

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…

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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

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, 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…

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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 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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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…

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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

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

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 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…

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The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation carries essential information on early stages of the Universe such as the cosmic inflation, forming cosmological structures through gravitational lensing, and the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 E. Carretti , C. Baccigalupi

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 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…

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

The recent analysis of the Planck 2018 polarization data shows a nonzero isotropic cosmic birefringence (ICB) that is not explained within the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm. We then explore the question of whether the nonzero ICB is interpreted by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Yuichiro Nakai , Ryo Namba , Ippei Obata , Yu-Cheng Qiu , Ryo Saito

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

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 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)…

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