Cosmological birefringence due to CPT-even Chern-Simons-like term with Kalb-Ramond and scalar fields

被引:4
作者
Ho, Shih-Hao [1 ]
Kao, W. F. [1 ]
Bamba, Kazuharu [2 ,3 ]
Geng, C. Q. [3 ]
机构
[1] Natl Chiao Tung Univ, Inst Phys, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
[2] Fukushima Univ, Fac Symbiot Syst Sci, Div Human Support Syst, Fukushima 9601296, Japan
[3] Natl Tsing Hua Univ, Dept Phys, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
来源
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2015年 / 75卷 / 05期
关键词
APPROPRIATE NULL HYPOTHESIS; COSMIC OPTICAL-ACTIVITY; 2003; FLIGHT; MACHS PRINCIPLE; POWER SPECTRUM; POLARIZATION; LORENTZ; ANISOTROPY; TEMPERATURE; INVARIANCE;
D O I
10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3426-5
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
We study the CPT-even dimension-six Chern-Simons-like term by including dynamical Kalb-Ramond and scalar fields to examine the cosmological birefringence. We show that the combined effect of a neutrino current and a Kalb-Ramond field could induce a sizable rotation polarization angle in the cosmic microwave background radiation polarization.
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