Towards a vacuum birefringence experiment at the Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields (Letter of Intent of the BIREF@HIBEF Collaboration)

Ahmadiniaz, N.; Hippler, W.; Edwards, J.; Cowan, T. E.; Marx-Glowna, B.; Seipt, D.; Zepf, M.; Hernandez Acosta, U.; Göde, S.; Kluge, T.; Paulus, G. G.; Sadashivaiah, S.; Sävert, A.; Rahul, S. V.; Zastrau, U.; King, B.; Grenzer, J.; Šmíd, M.; Benediktovitch, A.; Toncian, T.; Nakatsutsumi, M.; Mosman, E. A.; Schramm, U.; Krebs, D.; Karbstein, Felix; Bocklage, L.; Lötzsch, R.; Gies, H.; Kohlfürst, C.; Bömer, C.; Schützhold, R.; Humphries, O.; Görs, J.; Schwinkendorf, J.-P.; Röhlsberger, R.; Schmidt, S. M.; Sauerbrey, R.; Heinzl, T.; Rohringer, N.; Huang, L. G.; Viñas, S. Franchino; Khademi, P.; Bähtz, C.; Laso-García, A.; Macleod, A. J.; Hilz, P.; Randolph, L.; Schlenvoigt, H.-P.; Valialshchikov, M.; Stöhlker, T.; Evans, S.; Wipf, A.

doi:10.1017/hpl.2024.70

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PUBDB-2025-00639

Towards a vacuum birefringence experiment at the Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields (Letter of Intent of the BIREF@HIBEF Collaboration)

Ahmadiniaz, N. ; Bähtz, C. ; Benediktovitch, A. ; Bömer, C. ; Bocklage, L. ; Cowan, T. E. ; Edwards, J. ; Evans, S. ; Viñas, S. F. ; Gies, H. ; Göde, S. ; Görs, J. ; Grenzer, J. ; Hernandez Acosta, U. ; Heinzl, T. ; Hilz, P. ; Hippler, W. ; Huang, L. G. ; Humphries, O. ; Karbstein, F. (Corresponding author)Extern*XFEL.EU* ; Khademi, P. ; King, B. ; Kluge, T. ; Kohlfürst, C. ; Krebs, D. ; Laso-García, A. ; Lötzsch, R. ; Macleod, A. J. ; Marx-Glowna, B. ; Mosman, E. A. ; Nakatsutsumi, M. ; Paulus, G. G. ; Rahul, S. V. ; Randolph, L. ; Röhlsberger, R. ; Rohringer, N. ; Sävert, A. ; Sadashivaiah, S. ; Sauerbrey, R. ; Schlenvoigt, H.-P. ; Schmidt, S. M. ; Schramm, U. ; Schützhold, R. ; Schwinkendorf, J.-P. ; Seipt, D. ; Šmíd, M. ; Stöhlker, T. ; Toncian, T. ; Valialshchikov, M. ; Wipf, A. ; Zastrau, U. ; Zepf, M.

2025
Cambridge Univ. Press Cambridge

High power laser science and engineering 13, e7 (2025) [10.1017/hpl.2024.70]

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Report No.: arXiv:2405.18063

Abstract: Quantum field theory predicts a nonlinear response of the vacuum to strong electromagnetic fields of macroscopic extent. This fundamental tenet has remained experimentally challenging and is yet to be tested in the laboratory. A particularly distinct signature of the resulting optical activity of the quantum vacuum is vacuum birefringence. This offers an excellent opportunity for a precision test of nonlinear quantum electrodynamics in an uncharted parameter regime. Recently, the operation of the high-intensity Relativistic Laser at the X-ray Free Electron Laser provided by the Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields has been inaugurated at the High Energy Density scientific instrument of the European X-ray Free Electron Laser. We make the case that this worldwide unique combination of an X-ray free-electron laser and an ultra-intense near-infrared laser together with recent advances in high-precision X-ray polarimetry, refinements of prospective discovery scenarios and progress in their accurate theoretical modelling have set the stage for performing an actual discovery experiment of quantum vacuum nonlinearity.

Keyword(s): birefringence: vacuum ; electromagnetic field: high ; quantum electrodynamics: nonlinear ; polarization: monitoring ; laser: infrared ; free electron laser: X-ray ; optics ; precision measurement ; experimental methods ; light-by-light scattering ; vacuum birefringence ; vacuum polarization

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Note: 31 pages, 21 figures

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HED: High-Density matter Experiments (SASE2)

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