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

Abstract

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.

11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters Comment to version 2: minor changes to abstract and final discussion. Added 2 references Comment to version 3: corrected minor typographical errors, eliminated the distinction between scalar and pseudoscalar in the particle interpretation of the result

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