Ferguson, K. R. and Anderson, A. J. and Whitehorn, N. and Ade, P. A. R. and Archipley, M. and Avva, J. S. and Balkenhol, L. and Benabed, K. and Bender, A. N. and Benson, B. A. and Bianchini, F. and Bleem, L. E. and Bouchet, F. R. and Bryant, L. and Camphuis, E. and Carlstrom, J. E. and Cecil, T. W. and Chang, C. L. and Chaubal, P. and Chichura, P. M. and Chou, T.-L. and Crawford, T. M. and Cukierman, A. and Daley, C. and de Haan, T. and Dibert, K. R. and Dobbs, M. A. and Doussot, A. and Dutcher, D. and Everett, W. and Feng, C. and Foster, A. and Galli, S. and Gambrel, A. E. and Gardner, R. W. and Goeckner-Wald, N. and Gualtieri, R. and Guidi, F. and Guns, S. and Halverson, N. W. and Hivon, E. and Holder, G. P. and Holzapfel, W. L. and Hood, J. C. and Huang, N. and Knox, L. and Korman, M. and Kuo, C.-L. and Lee, A. T. and Lowitz, A. E. and Lu, C. and Millea, M. and Montgomery, J. and Natoli, T. and Noble, G. I. and Novosad, V. and Omori, Y. and Padin, S. and Pan, Z. and Paschos, P. and Prabhu, K. and Quan, W. and Rahlin, A. and Reichardt, C. L. and Rouble, M. and Ruhl, J. E. and Schiappucci, E. and Smecher, G. and Sobrin, J. A. and Stephen, J. and Suzuki, A. and Tandoi, C. and Thompson, K. L. and Thorne, B. and Tucker, C. and Umilta, C. and Vieira, J. D. and Wang, G. and Wu, W. L. K. and Yefremenko, V. and Young, M. R. (2022) Searching for axionlike time-dependent cosmic birefringence with data from SPT-3G. Physical Review D, 106 (4). Art. No. 042011. ISSN 2470-0010. doi:10.1103/physrevd.106.042011. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20221020-736967400.9
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Abstract
Ultralight axionlike particles (ALPs) are compelling dark matter candidates because of their potential to resolve small-scale discrepancies between ΛCDM predictions and cosmological observations. Axion-photon coupling induces a polarization rotation in linearly polarized photons traveling through an ALP field; thus, as the local ALP dark matter field oscillates in time, distant static polarized sources will appear to oscillate with a frequency proportional to the ALP mass. We use observations of the cosmic microwave background from SPT-3G, the current receiver on the South Pole Telescope, to set upper limits on the value of the axion-photon coupling constant g_(ϕγ) over the approximate mass range 10⁻²²-10⁻¹⁹ eV, corresponding to oscillation periods from 12 hours to 100 days. For periods between 1 and 100 days (4.7 × 10⁻²² eV ≤ m_ϕ ≤ 4.7 × 10⁻²⁰ eV), where the limit is approximately constant, we set a median 95% C.L. upper limit on the amplitude of on-sky polarization rotation of 0.071 deg. Assuming that dark matter comprises a single ALP species with a local dark matter density of 0.3 GeV /cm³, this corresponds to g_(ϕγ) < 1.18 × 10⁻¹² GeV⁻¹ × ((m_ϕ)/(1.0 × 10⁻²¹ eV)). These new limits represent an improvement over the previous strongest limits set using the same effect by a factor of ∼ 3.8.
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| Additional Information: | The South Pole Telescope program is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Grants No. PLR-1248097 and No. OPP-1852617. Partial support is also provided by the NSF Physics Frontier Center Grant No. PHY-1125897 to the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Kavli Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant No. GBMF#947 to the University of Chicago. Argonne National Laboratory’s work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of High Energy Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. Work at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a DOE-OS, HEP User Facility managed by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, was supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. The Cardiff authors acknowledge support from the UK Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC). The IAP authors acknowledge support from the Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES). M. A. and J. V. acknowledge support from the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, IL. J. V. acknowledges support from the Sloan Foundation. K. F. acknowledges support from the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. The Melbourne authors acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Project scheme (No. DP210102386). The McGill authors acknowledge funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and the Fonds de recherche du Québec Nature et technologies. The UCLA and MSU authors acknowledge support from NSF AST-1716965 and CSSI-1835865. This research was done using resources provided by the Open Science Grid, which is supported by the NSF Grant No. 1148698, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The data analysis pipeline also uses the scientific python stack. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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