Minicharged particles search by strong laser pulse-induced vacuum polarization effects

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• 作者：S. Villalba-Chá ; vez^a ; ^{selym@tp1.uni-duesseldorf.de} ; S. Meuren^b ; ^{sebastian.meuren@mpi-hd.mpg.de} ; C. Mü ; ller^a ; ^{c.mueller@tp1.uni-duesseldorf.de}
• 关键词：Beyond the Standard Model ; Minicharged particles ; Vacuum polarization ; Laser fields
• 刊名：Physics Letters B
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：10 December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：763
• 期：Complete
• 页码：445-453
• 全文大小：919 K
• 卷排序：763

文摘

Laser-based searches of the yet unobserved vacuum birefringence might be sensitive for very light hypothetical particles carrying a tiny fraction of the electron charge. We show that, with the help of contemporary techniques, polarimetric investigations driven by an optical laser pulse of moderate intensity might allow for excluding regions of the parameter space of these particle candidates which have not been discarded so far by laboratory measurement data. Particular attention is paid to the role of a Gaussian wave profile. It is argued that, at energy regimes in which the vacuum becomes dichroic due to these minicharges, the transmission probability of a probe beam through an analyzer set crossed to the initial polarization direction will depend on both the induced ellipticity as well as the rotation of the initial polarization plane. The weak and strong field regimes, relative to the attributes of these minicharged particles, and the relevance of the polarization of the strong field are investigated.