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

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2025

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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: High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 13, e7 (2025). 34 pages, 21 figures
Contributing Institute(s):
  1. Theoretical ultrafast X-ray science (FS-TUX)
  2. HED (XFEL_E1_HED)
  3. FS-Photon Science (FS-PS)
Research Program(s):
  1. 631 - Matter – Dynamics, Mechanisms and Control (POF4-631) (POF4-631)
  2. DFG project G:(GEPRIS)392856280 - FOR 2783: Probing the Quantum Vacuum at the High-Intensity Frontier (392856280) (392856280)
  3. DFG project G:(GEPRIS)416611371 - Optische Nichtlinearitäten des Quantenvakuums (416611371) (416611371)
  4. DFG project G:(GEPRIS)416607684 - Vakuumdoppelbrechung (416607684) (416607684)
  5. DFG project G:(GEPRIS)416702141 - Raum- und Zeitaufgelöste Einzelphotonen-detektion für Vakuumwechselwirkungen (416702141) (416702141)
  6. DFG project G:(GEPRIS)416708866 - Nichtperturbative Paarerzeugung: Ultra-relativistische Strahlen, Lasercharakterisierung und Paarnachweis (416708866) (416708866)
  7. DFG project G:(GEPRIS)278162697 - SFB 1242: Nichtgleichgewichtsdynamik kondensierter Materie in der Zeitdomäne (278162697) (278162697)
Experiment(s):
  1. HED: High-Density matter Experiments (SASE2)
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