Search for photon oscillations into massive particles

Fouché, Mathilde; Robilliard, Cécile; Faure, Stéphane; Rizzo, C.; Mauchain, Julien; Nardone, Marc; Battesti, Rémy; Martin, Luc; Sautivet, Anne-Marie; Paillard, Jean-Luc; Amiranoff, F.

doi:10.1103/physrevd.78.032013

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“…This directly increases the probability of γ → ALP → γ conversion, which at small masses scales as ∝ (BL) 4 . Nearly all the current LSW experiments (ALPS [50,51], BFRT [52,53], BMV [54,55], GammeV [56], LIPSS [57,58] and OSQAR [59]) performed so far, recycle one or two of the long superconducting dipole magnets from accelerator rings, such as the ones from HERA, Tevatron or LHC. A straightforward improvement can be achieved by using a larger number of these magnets (e.g.…”

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Optimizing light-shining-through-a-wall experiments for axion and other weakly interacting slim particle searches

Arias

Jaeckel

Redondo³

et al. 2010

Phys. Rev. D

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One of the prime tools to search for new light bosons interacting very weakly with photons -prominent examples are axions, axion-like particles and extra "hidden" U(1) gauge bosons -are light-shining-through-a-wall (LSW) experiments. With the current generation of these experiments finishing data taking it is time to plan for the next and search for an optimal setup. The main challenges are clear: on the one hand we want to improve the sensitivity towards smaller couplings, on the other hand we also want to increase the mass range to which the experiments are sensitive. Our main example are axion(-like particle)s but we also discuss implications for other WISPs (weakly interacting slim particles) such as hidden U(1) gauge bosons. To improve the sensitivity for axions towards smaller couplings one can use multiple magnets to increase the length of the interaction region. However, naively the price to pay is that the mass range is limited to smaller masses. We discuss how one can optimize the arrangement of magnets (both in field direction as well as allowing for possible gaps in between) to ameliorate this problem. Moreover, future experiments will include resonant, high quality optical cavities in both the production and the regeneration region. To achieve the necessary high quality of the cavities we need to avoid too high diffraction losses. This leads to minimum requirements on the diameter of the laser beam and therefore on the aperture of the cavity. We investigate what can be achieved with currently available magnets and desirable features for future ones.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimizing light-shining-through-a-wall experiments for axion and other weakly interacting slim particle searches

Arias

Jaeckel

Redondo³

et al. 2010

Phys. Rev. D

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“…Such a result, although in contrast with the CAST experiment [44], could have been due to axion-like particles. Subsequently the result was excluded by the same collaboration [1,4,5] after a series of upgrades to their apparatus and almost simultaneously the axion-like interpretation was excluded by two groups [45][46][47][48] in a regeneration type measurement. Today other such regeneration experiments have confirmed that the original PVLAS signal was spurious.…”

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Probing for new physics and detecting non-linear vacuum QED effects using gravitational wave interferometer antennas

Zavattini

Calloni

2009

Eur. Phys. J. C

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Low energy non-linear QED effects in vacuum have been predicted since 1936 and have been subject of research for many decades. Two main schemes have been proposed for such a 'first' detection: measurements of ellipticity acquired by a linearly polarized beam of light passing through a magnetic field and direct light-light scattering. The study of the propagation of light through an external field can also be used to probe for new physics such as the existence of axion-like particles and millicharged particles. Their existence in nature would cause the index of refraction of vacuum to be different from unity in the presence of an external field and dependent of the polarization direction of the propagating light. The major achievement of reaching the project sensitivities in gravitational wave interferometers such as LIGO and VIRGO has opened the possibility of using such instruments for the detection of QED corrections in electrodynamics and for probing new physics at very low energies. We show that it is possible to distinguish between various scenarios of new physics in the hypothetical case of detecting unexpected values. Considering the design sensitivity in the strain of the near future VIRGO+ interferometer leads to a variable dipole magnet configuration such that B 2 D ≥ 13000 T 2 m √ Hz for a 'first' vacuum non-linear QED detection.PACS 12.20.Fv · 42.50.Xa · 07.60.Ly

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“…Indeed, on the basis of the mentioned optical properties of the polarized vacuum, collaborations such as BFRT [29], PVLAS [30,31], BMV [32], and Q & A [33] have performed high-precision polarimetric measurements on a low-energy photon beam which traverses a magnetic field region. Likewise, based on the idea of photon regeneration, many "Light Shining Through a Wall" experiments have been put forward [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42], but in none of these setups a weakly interacting sub-eV particle has been detected so far. Instead, the range of the unknown particle masses and coupling constants has been constricted.…”

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Light dark matter candidates in intense laser pulses I: paraphotons and fermionic minicharged particles

Villalba-Chávez

Müller

2015

J. High Energ. Phys.

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Polarimetric experiments driven by the strong field of a circularly polarized laser wave can become a powerful tool to limit the parameter space of not yet detected hidden-photons and minicharged particles associated with extra U(1) gauge symmetries. We show how the absorption and dispersion of probe electromagnetic waves in the vacuum polarized by such a background are modified due to the coupling between the visible U(1)-gauge sector and these hypothetical degrees of freedom. The results of this analysis reveal that the regime close to the two-photon reaction threshold can be a sensititive probe of these hidden particles. Parameters of modern laser systems are used to estimate the projected sensitivities on the corresponding coupling constants in regions where experiments driven by dipole magnets are less constricted. The role played by a paraphoton field is analyzed via a comparison with a model in which the existence of minicharges is assumed only. For both scenarios is found that the most stringent exclusion limit occurs at the lowest threshold mass; this one being determined by a certain combination of the field frequencies and dictated by energy momentum balance of the photo-production of a pair of minicharged particles. The dependencies of the observables on the laser attributes as well as on the unknown particle parameters are also analyzed.

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Search for photon oscillations into massive particles

Cited by 88 publications

References 58 publications

Optimizing light-shining-through-a-wall experiments for axion and other weakly interacting slim particle searches

Optimizing light-shining-through-a-wall experiments for axion and other weakly interacting slim particle searches

Probing for new physics and detecting non-linear vacuum QED effects using gravitational wave interferometer antennas

Light dark matter candidates in intense laser pulses I: paraphotons and fermionic minicharged particles

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