The PVLAS experiment: a 25 year effort to measure vacuum magnetic birefringence

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSREP.2020.06.001zbMATH Open1489.78002arXiv2005.12913OpenAlexW3035156555MaRDI QIDQ823232FDOQ823232

G. Zavattini, R. Pengo, G. Messineo, A. Ejlli, U. Gastaldi, G. Ruoso, F. Della Valle

Publication date: 24 September 2021

Published in: Physics Reports (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper describes the 25 year effort to measure vacuum magnetic birefringence and dichroism with the PVLAS experiment. The experiment went through two main phases: the first using a rotating superconducting magnet and the second using two rotating permanent magnets. The experiment was not able to reach the predicted value from QED. Nonetheless the experiment set the current best limits on vacuum magnetic birefringence and dichroism for a field of $B_{mext}=2.5$ T, namely, $Delta{n}^{m(PVLAS)}=(12pm17)imes10^{-23}$ and $|Deltakappa{|}^{m(PVLAS)}=(10pm28)imes10^{-23}$. The uncertainty on $Delta{n}^{m(PVLAS)}$ is about a factor 7 above the predicted value of $Delta{n}^{m(QED)}=2.5imes10^{-23}$ @ 2.5 T.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12913

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zbMATH Keywords

permanent magnetsmagnetic birefringencesuperconducting magnet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Maxwell equations (35Q61) White noise theory (60H40) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Experimental work for problems pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory (78-05) Geometric optics (78A05)

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