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BICEP Club: BICEP II and cosmological birefringence

Name: BICEP Club: BICEP II and cosmological birefringence
Start: 2014-04-08T11:30:00+02:00
End: 2014-04-08T12:30:00+02:00
Location: DESY Hamburg

Tuesday 8 Apr 2014, 11:30 → 12:30 Europe/Berlin

Seminar room 2, building 2a (DESY Hamburg)

Seminar room 2, building 2a

DESY Hamburg

Description

cosmological birefringence would lead to a rotation of linear polarisation and may constitute a contamination for the detection of primordial gravitational waves. Such an effect could be due for instance to axion DM or quintessence. See arxiv:1211.5734 and arxiv:1312.7877.

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