Experimental method to detect the magnetic birefringence of vacuum

Year: 1998

Authors: Bakalov D., Brandi F., Cantatore G., Carugno G., Carusotto S., Della Valle F., De Riva A.M., Gastaldi U., Iacopini E., Micossi P., Milotti E., Onofrio R., Pengo R., Perrone F., Petrucci G., Polacco E., Rizzo C., Ruoso G., Zavattini E., Zavattini G.

Autors Affiliation: Laboratori INFN, via Romea 4, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Piazza Torricelli 1, 56100 Pisa, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN, via Valerio 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy; INFN, Sezione di Padova, via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy; INFN, Sezione di Pisa, via Livornese 582/a, 56010 S Piero a Grado (PI), Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN, via Paradiso 12, 44100 Ferrara, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN, largo E Fermi 2, 50125 Firenze, Italy; Dipto. di Fisica \’Galileo Galilei\’, via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy; Inst. for Nucl. Res. and Nucl. Ener., tsarigradsko chaussee 72, Sofia 1784, Bulgaria; INFN, Sezione di Trieste, via Valerio 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy

Abstract: We describe the principle and the status of the PVLAS experiment which is being assembled at INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (Legnaro, Padua, Italy) to look for coherent effects, related to the QED vacuum structure, on the propagation of a polarized light beam in a strong magnetic field.

Journal/Review: QUANTUM AND SEMICLASSICAL OPTICS: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN OPTICAL SOCIETY PART B

Volume: 10 (1)      Pages from: 239  to: 250

More Information: Conference: International Workshop on Polarization Effects in Lasers and Spectroscopy – Location: UNIV TORONTO, TORONTO, CANADA
Date: JUN, 1997
KeyWords: e da rivista: Birefringence; Coherent light; Electrodynamics; Electromagnetic fields; Light polarization; Light propagation; Vacuum, Quantum electrodynamic (QED) vacuum structures, Quantum theory
DOI: 10.1088/1355-5111/10/1/027