Constraints on cosmological birefringence energy dependence from CMB polarization data
- Dipartimento di Fisica and sez. Roma1 INFN, Università di Roma ''La Sapienza'', P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome (Italy)
We study the possibility of constraining the energy dependence of cosmological birefringence by using CMB polarization data. We consider four possible behaviors, characteristic of different theoretical scenarios: energy-independent birefringence motivated by Chern-Simons interactions of the electromagnetic field, linear energy dependence motivated by a 'Weyl' interaction of the electromagnetic field, quadratic energy dependence, motivated by quantum gravity modifications of low-energy electrodynamics, and inverse quadratic dependence, motivated by Faraday rotation generated by primordial magnetic fields. We constrain the parameters associated to each kind of dependence and use our results to give constraints on the models mentioned. We forecast the sensitivity that Planck data will be able to achieve in this respect.
- OSTI ID:
- 22283021
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 02; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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