Polarization precession in photon-photon encounters
| dc.creator | Sawyer, R. F. | |
| dc.date | 2004-02-11 | |
| dc.date | 2004-02-18 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:52:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:52:02Z | |
| dc.description | We calculate the rate of precession of the direction of polarization of a photon traversing a sea of plane-polarized photons moving in the opposed direction, where the interaction is the one-loop "vacuum" Heisenberg-Euler coupling of four fields. Substantial precession can take place in a distance many orders of magnitude shorter than the free path for photon-photon scattering, mediated by the same interaction. We consider briefly the possibility of some interesting collective effects in the case in which instead of a particle and a sea, two seas are caused to collide. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages. Added: Mention of earlier work by Kotkin and Serbo with results equivalent to those of our first section | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0402127 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0402127 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/43319 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Polarization precession in photon-photon encounters | |
| dc.type | text |