[Triumf-journal-club] Journal Club Monday, March 6

[Richard H. Cyburt]

Hi All,

Just wanted to report on our next Journal club.  Dieter Frekers has 
volunteered to discuss the paper he mentioned at out last meeting.

Noon in the MainOffice 2nd floor Boardroom

"Experimental observation of optical rotation generated in vacuum by a 
magnetic field"
Zavattini et al.
hep-ex/0507107

"We report the experimental observation of a light polarization rotation 
in vacuum in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. Assuming that 
data distribution is Gaussian, the average measured rotation is 
(3.9+/-0.5)e-12 rad/pass, at 5 T with 44000 passes through a 1m long 
magnet, with lambda = 1064 nm. The relevance of this result in terms of 
the existence of a light, neutral, spin-zero particle is discussed."

As always, be sure to bring your lunch, news and rumors.  This includes 
paper suggestions and volunteers for journal club.

-- 
Richard H. Cyburt
Research Associate
Theory Group
TRIUMF Laboratory
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Vancouver, B.C. 
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