Constraining the photon coupling of ultra-light dark-matter axion-like particles by polarization variations of parsec-scale jets in active galaxies

M. M. Ivanov; Y. Y. Kovalev; M. L. Lister; A. G. Panin; Alexander B. Pushkarev; Tuomas Savolainen; Ivan S. Troitsky

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/059

Constraining the photon coupling of ultra-light dark-matter axion-like particles by polarization variations of parsec-scale jets in active galaxies

M. M. Ivanov, Y. Y. Kovalev, M. L. Lister, A. G. Panin, Alexander B. Pushkarev, Tuomas Savolainen, Ivan S. Troitsky

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Dark matter may consist of axion-like particles with ultra-low masses. Two-photon interactions of these particles affect the polarization of radiation propagating through the dark matter. Coherent oscillations of the Bose condensate of the particles induce periodic changes in the plane of polarisation of emission passing through the condensate. We estimate this effect and analyze MOJAVE VLBA polarization observations of bright downstream features in the parsec-scale jets of active galaxies. Through the non-observation of periodic changes in the polarization angle, we are able to constrain the photon coupling of the ultra-light dark-matter axion-like particles at the level of less than or similar to 10(-12) GeV-1 for masses between similar to 5 x 10(-23) eV and similar to 1.2 x 10(-21) eV.

Original language	English
Article number	059
Number of pages	23
Journal	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/059
Publication status	Published - Feb 2019
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

particle physics
cosmology connection
cosmology of theories beyond the SM
GALACTIC NUCLEI
LINEAR-POLARIZATION
FIELD OSCILLATIONS
VLBA EXPERIMENTS
MOJAVE
BIREFRINGENCE
ALPS

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Ivanov, M. M., Kovalev, Y. Y., Lister, M. L., Panin, A. G., Pushkarev, A. B., Savolainen, T., & Troitsky, I. S. (2019). Constraining the photon coupling of ultra-light dark-matter axion-like particles by polarization variations of parsec-scale jets in active galaxies. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, (2), Article 059. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/059

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Constraining the photon coupling of ultra-light dark-matter axion-like particles by polarization variations of parsec-scale jets in active galaxies

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