Production and Detection of Very Light Spin-zero Bosons at Optical Frequencies

Journal Article · Thu Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 2006

OSTI ID:885421

Afanasev, A V; Baker, O K; McFarlane, K W; Biallas, G H; Boyce, J R; Shinn, Michelle D

The PVLAS collaboration has observed rotation of the plane of polarization of light passing through a magnetic field in vacuum and have proposed that the effect is due to interaction of photons with very light spin-zero bosons. This would represent new physics beyond the Standard Model, and hence it is of high interest to test this hypothesis. We describe a proposed test of the PVLAS result, and ways of producing, detecting, and studying such bosons with light in the optical frequency range. Novel features include methods for measurements of boson mass, interaction strengths, and decay- or oscillation-lengths with techniques not available in the x-ray region.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84ER40150
• OSTI ID: 885421
• Report Number(s): JLAB-ACT-06-506; DOE/ER/40150-3964; U.S. National Science Foundation awards PHY-0114343 and PHY-0301841.; TRN: US0603893
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BOSONS
DECAY
DETECTION
FREQUENCY RANGE
HYPOTHESIS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
PHOTONS
PHYSICS
POLARIZATION
PRODUCTION
ROTATION
STANDARD MODEL