Production and detection of very light spin-zero bosons at optical frequencies

Abstract

The PVLAS collaboration has observed rotation of the plane of polarization of light passing through a magnetic field in vacuum and has 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.

Four pages, four EPS figures, uses REVTeX4. Modifications: Clarification on mass measurement. Clarification on the applicability of Eqn. 3. Minor typos fixed. Text revised to be more relevant to the LIPSS proposal at Jefferson Lab, and Jefferson Lab authors added

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