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New constraints on very light pseudoscalars

2012/04/30 by A. Payez, J. R. Cudell, Payez, A. +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph.CO

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1204.6614

Contributed to the "7th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs", Mykonos June 26 - July 1 2011

arxiv created 2012/04/30 · arxiv updated 2012/05/01

Abstract

Nearly massless axion-like particles are of interest for astrophysical observations, and some constraints on their parameter space do exist in the literature. Here, we propose to put new constraints on these particles using polarisation and, in particular, the polarisation differences observed between different quasar classes.

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