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 has set the current best limits on vacuum magnetic birefringence and dichroism for a field of Bext=2.5 T, namely, Δn(PVLAS)=(12±17)×10−23 and |Δκ|(PVLAS)=(10±28)×10−23. The uncertainty on Δn(PVLAS) is about a factor 7 above the predicted value of Δn(QED)=2.5×10−23 @ 2.5 T.
The PVLAS experiment: A 25 year effort to measure vacuum magnetic birefringence
Ejlli A.;Gastaldi U.;Zavattini G.
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2020
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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 has set the current best limits on vacuum magnetic birefringence and dichroism for a field of Bext=2.5 T, namely, Δn(PVLAS)=(12±17)×10−23 and |Δκ|(PVLAS)=(10±28)×10−23. The uncertainty on Δn(PVLAS) is about a factor 7 above the predicted value of Δn(QED)=2.5×10−23 @ 2.5 T.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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