Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2007-06-23
Phys.Rev.D77:032006,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
25 pages, 7 figures Main changes rel. to v.2: minor changes to abstract, replaced Figures 4,5,6, corrected typographical error
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.032006
IIn 2006 the PVLAS collaboration reported the observation of an optical rotation generated in vacuum by a magnetic field. To further check against possible instrumental artifacts several upgrades to the PVLAS apparatus have been made during the last year. Two data taking runs, at the wavelength of 1064 nm, have been performed in the new configuration with magnetic field strengths of 2.3 T and 5 T. The 2.3 T field value was chosen in order to avoid stray fields. The new observations do not show the presence of a rotation signal down to the levels of $1.2\cdot 10^{-8}$ rad at 5 T and $1.0\cdot 10^{-8}$ rad at 2.3 T (at 95% c.l.) with 45000 passes in the magnetic field zone. In the same conditions no ellipticity signal was detected down to $1.4\cdot 10^{-8}$ at 2.3 T (at 95% c.l.), whereas at 5 T a signal is still present. The physical nature of this ellipticity as due to an effect depending on $B^2$ can be excluded by the measurement at 2.3 T. These new results completely exclude the previously published magnetically induced vacuum dichroism results, indicating that they were instrumental artifacts. These new results therefore also exclude the particle interpretation of the previous PVLAS results as due to a spin zero boson. The background ellipticity at 2.3 T can be used to determine a new limit on the total photon-photon scattering cross section of $\sigma_{\gamma\gamma} < 4.5 \cdot10^{-34}$ barn at 95% c.l..
Bregant M.
Cantatore Giovanni
Carusotto S.
Cimino R.
Domenico Gianni Di
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