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Constraining ALPs with linear and circular polarisation measurements of quasar light

2013/09/24 by Alexandre Payez, Payez, Alexandre
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Photonic and Optical Devices #Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices #astro-ph.CO #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.6114

4 pages, 1 figure; contributed to the 9th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, Mainz, June 24-28, 2013

arxiv created 2013/09/24 · openalex publication_date 2013/09/24 · arxiv updated 2013/09/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We discuss the constraints derived on the mixing of photons with light pseudoscalars using the distributions of good-quality linear and circular polarisation measurements of light from the least polarised classes of quasars. We also provide the dependence of our limit on the average electron density in the local supercluster for nearly massless particles.

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