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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

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$-$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 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

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 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

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

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

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 $B$…

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

Cosmic birefringence is a hypothesized parity violation in electromagnetism that predicts a frequency-independent polarization rotation as light propagates. This would rotate the light from the Cosmic Microwave Background, producing an…

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 correlations between T, E modes and B modes in cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, which are expected to vanish under parity symmetry, have become a sensitive probe of the new physics beyond the standard model. In this paper,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Jiazheng Dou , Shamik Ghosh , Larissa Santos , Wen Zhao

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

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

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…

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 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

When coupled to electromagnetism via a Chern-Simons interaction, axion-like particles (ALP) produce a rotation of the plane of linear polarization of photons known as cosmic birefringence. Recent measurements of cosmic birefringence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-10 P. Diego-Palazuelos

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…

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