%0 Conference Paper
%A Rubbia, Andre
%A Sakharov, Alexander
%T Polarization mesurements of gamma ray bursts and axion like particles
%N arXiv:0809.0612
%C Hamburg
%I Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY
%M PUBDB-2016-01773
%M arXiv:0809.0612
%M CERN-PH-TH-2008-187
%P 65-68
%D 2009
%X A polarized gamma ray emission spread over a sufficiently wide energy band from a strongly magnetized astrophysical object like gamma ray bursts (GRBs) offers an opportunity to test the hypothesis of axion like particles (ALPs). Based on evidences of polarized gamma ray emission detected in several gamma ray bursts we estimated the level of ALPs induced dichroism, which could take place in the magnetized fireball environment of a GRB. This allows to estimate the sensitivity of polarization measurements of GRBs to the ALP-photon coupling. This sensitivity \gag ≤ 2.2·10<sup>−11</sup> GeV<sup>−1</sup> calculated for the ALP mass m<sub>a</sub>=10<sup>−3</sup> eV and MeV energy spread of gamma ray emission is competitive with the sensitivity of CAST and becomes even stronger for lower ALPs masses.
%B 4th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs
%C 18 Jun 2008 - 21 Jun 2008, Hamburg (Germany)
Y2 18 Jun 2008 - 21 Jun 2008
M2 Hamburg, Germany
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)8 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)15
%9 Contribution to a conference proceedingsInternal Report
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%R 10.3204/DESY-PROC-2008-02/sakharov_alexander
%U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/297020