The 8th Asian Triangle Heavy-Ion Conference (ATHIC2021)

Vacuum birefringence and dichroism in strong magnetic fields

6 Nov 2021, 14:38

17m

Room 107 (60th Anniversary Hall , Inha Univ. Incheon, South Korea)

Theory Contributed Session 1

Speaker

Koichi Hattori (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Description

I discuss effects of strong magnetic fields on the photon propagation in vacuum. I elaborate on the mechanism that leads to the vacuum birefringence and the vacuum dichroism, putting an emphasis on the fermion spectrum in magnetic fields and showing explicit diagrammatic computation. I also mention potential experimental feasibility with the strong magnetic field induced by the ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions.

Presentation materials

AHITC2021---hattori.pdf

AHITC2021---hattori.pptx