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Axion interpretation of the PVLAS data?

Andreas Ringwald

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The PVLAS collaboration has recently reported the observation of a rotation of the polarization plane of light propagating through a transverse static magnetic field. Such an effect can arise from the production of a light, mA ~ meV, pseudoscalar coupled to two photons with coupling strength gAγ ~ 5 × 10−6 GeV−1. Here, we review these experimental findings, discuss how astrophysical and helioscope bounds on this coupling can be evaded, and emphasize some experimental proposals to test the scenario.


PACS

14.80.Mz Axions and other Nambu-Goldstone bosons (Majorons, familons, etc.)

12.60.-i Models beyond the standard model

95.30.Cq Elementary particle processes

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 1 (2006)



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