The PVLAS experiment for measuring the magnetic birefringence of vacuum

Zavattini, Guido and Della Valle, F. and Gastaldi, U. and Milotti, E. and Messineo, G. and Pengo, R. and Piemontese, L. and Ruoso, G. (2013) The PVLAS experiment for measuring the magnetic birefringence of vacuum. Il nuovo cimento C, 36 (1). pp. 41-45. ISSN 1826-9885

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Abstract

We describe the principle and status of the PVLAS experiment being prepared at the Department of Physics and INFN section in Ferrara, Italy. The goal of the experiment is to measure the magnetic birefringence of vacuum. This effect is directly connected to the vacuum QED structure and can be detected by measuring the ellipticity acquired by a linearly polarized laser beam traversing a strong magnetic field. Vacuum magnetic birefringence is predicted by the Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian. The experimental method is also sensitive to new physics and could place new laboratory limits to hypothetical particles coupling to two photons, such as axion like particles, or millicharged particles.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Quantum electrodynamics ; Birefringence ; Magneto-optical effects
Subjects: 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica
Depositing User: Marina Spanti
Date Deposited: 02 May 2020 14:20
Last Modified: 02 May 2020 14:20
URI: http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/18055

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