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Probing axionlike particles with the ultraviolet photon polarization from active galactic nuclei in radio galaxies

Dieter Horns1,*, Luca Maccione2,3,†, Alessandro Mirizzi4,‡, and Marco Roncadelli5,§

  • 1II Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
  • 2Arnold Sommerfeld Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Theresienstraße 37, 80333 München, Germany
  • 3Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München, Germany
  • 4II Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
  • 5INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Via A. Bassi 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy

  • *dieter.horns@desy.de
  • †luca.maccione@lmu.de
  • ‡alessandro.mirizzi@desy.de
  • §marco.roncadelli@pv.infn.it
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Phys. Rev. D 85, 085021 – Published 19 April, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.085021

Abstract

The mixing of photons with axionlike particles (ALPs) in the large-scale magnetic field B induces a rotation in the polarization angle of a linearly polarized photon beam from active galactic nuclei in radio galaxies as it propagates over cosmological distances. Using available ultraviolet polarization data concerning these sources, we derive a new bound on the product of the photon-ALP coupling gaγ times B. We find gaγB≲10−11  GeV−1 nG for ultralight ALPs with ma≲10−15  eV. We compare our new bound with the ones present in the literature and we comment about possible improvements with observations of more sources.

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Phys. Rev. D 85, 085021– Published 19 April, 2012
  • Received 9 March 2012

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