Speaker
Silvia Gasparotto
Description
A recent measurement of the non-zero isotropic birefringence angle with a 2.4 sigma level in Planck 2018 polarization data opens a tantalizing window for testing the parity-violating extension of the Standard Model. In this talk, I will explain the measurement of cosmic birefringence and discuss its implications for dark matter and dark energy models in the context of axion physics.
