In 2006 the PVLAS collaboration reported the observation of an optical rotation generated in vacuum by a magnetic field. To further check against possible instrumental artifacts, several upgrades to the PVLAS apparatus have been made during the past year. Two data taking runs, at the wavelength of 1064 nm, have been performed in the new configuration with magnetic field strengths of 2.3 and 5 T. The 2.3 T field value was chosen in order to avoid stray fields. The new observations do not show the presence of a rotation signal down to the levels of 1.2×10-8  rad at 5 T and 1.0×10-8  rad at 2.3 T (at 95% C.L.) with 45 000 passes in the magnetic field zone. In the same conditions no ellipticity signal was detected down to 1.4×10-8 at 2.3 T (at 95% C.L.), whereas at 5 T a signal is still present. The physical nature of this ellipticity as due to an effect depending on B2 can be excluded by the measurement at 2.3 T. These new results completely exclude the previously published magnetically i

New PVLAS results and limits on magnetically induced optical rotation and ellipticity in vacuum

MILOTTI, EDOARDO;LOZZA, VALENTINA;DELLA VALLE, FEDERICO;CANTATORE, GIOVANNI;
2008-01-01

Abstract

In 2006 the PVLAS collaboration reported the observation of an optical rotation generated in vacuum by a magnetic field. To further check against possible instrumental artifacts, several upgrades to the PVLAS apparatus have been made during the past year. Two data taking runs, at the wavelength of 1064 nm, have been performed in the new configuration with magnetic field strengths of 2.3 and 5 T. The 2.3 T field value was chosen in order to avoid stray fields. The new observations do not show the presence of a rotation signal down to the levels of 1.2×10-8  rad at 5 T and 1.0×10-8  rad at 2.3 T (at 95% C.L.) with 45 000 passes in the magnetic field zone. In the same conditions no ellipticity signal was detected down to 1.4×10-8 at 2.3 T (at 95% C.L.), whereas at 5 T a signal is still present. The physical nature of this ellipticity as due to an effect depending on B2 can be excluded by the measurement at 2.3 T. These new results completely exclude the previously published magnetically i
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