Parity Violation Constraints Using Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Spectra from 2006 and 2007 Observations by the QUaD Polarimeter
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Wu, E.Y.S.
Ade, P.
Bowden, M.
Brown, M.L.
Cahill, G.
Castro, P.G.
Church, S.
Culverhouse, T.
Ganga, K.
Gear, W.K.
Gupta, S.
Hinderks, J.
Lange, A.E.
Leitch, E.
Melhusish, S.J.
Memari, Y.
Murphy, J.A.
Orlando, A.
Piccirillo, L.
Pryke, C.
Rajguru, N.
Rusholme, B.
Schwarz, R.
O'Sullivan, C.
Taylor, A.N.
Thompson, K.L.
Turner, A.H.
Zemcov, M.
Bock, J.
Friedman, R B
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Wu, E. Y.S., P. Ade, J. Bock, M. Bowden, M.L. Brown, G. Cahill, P.G. Castro, et al. 2009. Parity violation constraints using cosmic microwave background polarization spectra from 2006 and 2007 observations by the QUaD polarimeter. Physical Review Letters 102(16):161302.Abstract
We constrain parity-violating interactions to the surface of last scattering using spectra from the QUaD experiment’s second and third seasons of observations by searching for a possible systematic rotation of the polarization directions of cosmic microwave background photons. We measure the rotation angle due to such a possible ‘‘cosmological birefringence’’ to be \(0.55^{\circ} \pm 0.82^{\circ}\) (random) \(\pm 0.5^{\circ}\) (systematic) using QUaD’s 100 and 150 GHz temperature-curl and gradient-curl spectra over the spectra over the multipole range 200 <\(\ell\)< 2000, consistent with null, and constrain Lorentz-violating interactions to <2 \(\times\) 10\(^ {-43}\) GeV (68% confidence limit). This is the best constraint to date on electrodynamic parity violation on cosmological scales.Terms of Use
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