Parity violation constraints using cosmic microwave background polarization spectra from 2006 and 2007 observations by the QUaD polarimeter

E. Y.S. Wu; P. Ade; J. Bock; M. Bowden; M. L. Brown; G. Cahill; P. G. Castro; S. Church; T. Culverhouse; R. B. Friedman; K. Ganga; W. K. Gear; S. Gupta; J. Hinderks; J. Kovac; A. E. Lange; E. Leitch; S. J. Melhuish; Y. Memari; J. A. Murphy; A. Orlando; L. Piccirillo; C. Pryke; N. Rajguru; B. Rusholme; R. Schwarz; C. O'Sullivan; A. N. Taylor; K. L. Thompson; A. H. Turner; M. Zemcov

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.161302

Parity violation constraints using cosmic microwave background polarization spectra from 2006 and 2007 observations by the QUaD polarimeter

E. Y.S. Wu
, P. Ade
, J. Bock
, M. Bowden
, M. L. Brown
, G. Cahill
, P. G. Castro
, S. Church
, T. Culverhouse
, R. B. Friedman
, K. Ganga
, W. K. Gear
, S. Gupta
, J. Hinderks
, J. Kovac
, A. E. Lange
, E. Leitch
, S. J. Melhuish
, Y. Memari
, J. A. Murphy

A. Orlando, L. Piccirillo, C. Pryke, N. Rajguru, B. Rusholme, R. Schwarz, C. O'Sullivan, A. N. Taylor, K. L. Thompson, A. H. Turner, M. Zemcov

Stanford University
Cardiff University
California Institute of Technology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Cavendish Laboratory
Maynooth University
Instituto Superior Técnico
University of Edinburgh, Institute for Astronomy
University of Chicago
Université Paris Cité
University of Manchester
University College London

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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°±0.82° (random) ±0.5° (systematic) using QUaD's 100 and 150 GHz temperature-curl and gradient-curl spectra over the spectra over the multipole range 200< <2000, consistent with null, and constrain Lorentz-violating interactions to <2×10-43GeV (68% confidence limit). This is the best constraint to date on electrodynamic parity violation on cosmological scales.

Original language	English
Article number	161302
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	102
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.161302
Publication status	Published - 21 Apr 2009
Externally published	Yes

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Wu, E. Y. S., Ade, P., Bock, J., Bowden, M., Brown, M. L., Cahill, G., Castro, P. G., Church, S., Culverhouse, T., Friedman, R. B., Ganga, K., Gear, W. K., Gupta, S., Hinderks, J., Kovac, J., Lange, A. E., Leitch, E., Melhuish, S. J., Memari, Y., ... Zemcov, M. (2009). Parity violation constraints using cosmic microwave background polarization spectra from 2006 and 2007 observations by the QUaD polarimeter. Physical Review Letters, 102(16), Article 161302. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.161302

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Parity violation constraints using cosmic microwave background polarization spectra from 2006 and 2007 observations by the QUaD polarimeter

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