Photon splitting and photon dispersion in a strong magnetic field

Adler, Stephen L.

doi:10.1016/0003-4916(71)90154-0

Photon splitting and photon dispersion in a strong magnetic field

Stephen L. Adler
(
- Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study
)

Jan, 1971

49 pages

Part of Adventures in theoretical physics: Selected papers with commentaries, 333-353

Published in:

Annals Phys. 67 (1971) 599-647

DOI:

10.1016/0003-4916(71)90154-0

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Abstract: (Elsevier)

We determine the refractive indices for photon propagation, and the absorption coefficient and polarization selection rules for photon splitting, in a strong constant magnetic field. Results are presented both in the effective Lagrangian (low frequency) approximation and in a more accurate approximation which exactly sums the vacuum polarization ring diagrams, neglecting only internal virtual photon radiative corrections. Our principal conclusion is that photon splitting can provide a mechanism for the production of linearly polarized gamma rays.

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