Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992phlb..289...67h&link_type=abstract
Physics Letters B, Volume 289, Issue 1-2, p. 67-72.
Physics
76
Scientific paper
A coupling gϕE.B to a pseudoscalar field ϕ affects the polarization properties of electromagnetic waves as they propagate through background fields. We analyse the bounds imposed on g from astronomical polarization measurements. If ϕ is the Nambu-Goldstone boson field of a global symmetry spontaneously broken at an energy scale v, the g=Nα/πv, with N a model-dependent numerical coefficient. For an exactly massless Nambu-Goldstone boson that N>~50 is incompatible with the observed correlation between polarization properties and shape of distant radio galaxies and quasars, unless there was inflation after the breakdown of the global symmetry. We also show that propagation through intervening magnetic fields induces a small degree of linear polarization in the cosmic microwave background.
Work partially supported by the US Department of Energy under contract No. DE-FG05-86ER40272.
Harari Diego
Sikivie Pierre
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