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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 679, Issue 2, Pages L61-L63Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/589447
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cosmic microwave background; cosmological parameters; cosmology : theory
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In this Letter we update our previous results on the test of CPT symmetry with cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements. A CPT-violating interaction in the photon sector L-CS similar to p(mu)A(nu)(F) over tilde (mu nu) gives rise to a rotation of the polarization vectors of the propagating CMB photons. Recently the WMAP group used the newly released polarization data of WMAP5 to measure this rotation angle Delta alpha and obtained Delta alpha = -1.7 degrees +/- 2.1 degrees (1 sigma). However, in their analysis the BOOMERANG 2003 data are not included. Here we revisit this issue by combining the full data of WMAP5 and BOOMERANG 2003 angular power spectra for the measurement of this rotation angle and find that Delta alpha = -2.6 degrees +/- 1.9 degrees at a 68% confidence level.
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