Strong field vacuum birefringence in plane wave pulses
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2023-07-28 v1
Abstract
By combining an adiabatic approach based on a `locally monochromatic' approximation with a local Hilbert transform, it is demonstrated how vacuum birefringence in the strong field regime can be calculated using a rate approach suitable for Monte Carlo simulation codes. Results for the flipping of the photon's polarisation (helicity) are benchmarked with evaluation of exact expressions in a circularly (linearly) polarised plane wave of finite extent. Example probabilities are given for typical experimental parameters.
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@article{arxiv.2307.14417,
title = {Strong field vacuum birefringence in plane wave pulses},
author = {B. King and T. Heinzl and T. G. Blackburn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14417},
year = {2023}
}
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9 pages, 5 figures