Polarization precession in photon-photon encounters

Details Polarization precession in photon-photon encounters Polarization precession in photon-photon encounters

2004-02-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0402127v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

4 pages. Added: Mention of earlier work by Kotkin and Serbo with results equivalent to those of our first section

Scientific paper

We calculate the rate of precession of the direction of polarization of a photon traversing a sea of plane-polarized photons moving in the opposed direction, where the interaction is the one-loop "vacuum" Heisenberg-Euler coupling of four fields. Substantial precession can take place in a distance many orders of magnitude shorter than the free path for photon-photon scattering, mediated by the same interaction. We consider briefly the possibility of some interesting collective effects in the case in which instead of a particle and a sea, two seas are caused to collide.

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