[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Journal Club Seminar today at 12:00

Mon, 6 Mar 2006 05:00:04 -0800

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Date/Time: Mon 2006-03-06 at 12:00

Location:  MainOffice Boardroom

Speaker:   Dieter Frekers ()

Title:     Experimental observation of optical rotation generated in vacuum by a magnetic field

Abstract: authors: Zavattini et al., of the paper 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."

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