New bounds on heavy axions with an X-ray free electron laser

Autor:	Halliday, Jack W. D., Marocco, Giacomo, Beyer, Konstantin A., Heaton, Charles, Nakatsutsumi, Motoaki, Preston, Thomas R., Arrowsmith, Charles D., Baehtz, Carsten, Goede, Sebastian, Humphries, Oliver, Garcia, Alejandro Laso, Plackett, Richard, Svensson, Pontus, Vacalis, Georgios, Wark, Justin, Wood, Daniel, Zastrau, Ulf, Bingham, Robert, Shipsey, Ian, Sarkar, Subir, Gregori, Gianluca
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment Physics - Atomic Physics Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We present new exclusion bounds obtained at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser facility (EuXFEL) on axion-like particles (ALPs) in the mass range 10^{-3} eV < m_a < 10^{4} eV. Our experiment exploits the Primakoff effect via which photons can, in the presence of a strong external electric field, decay into axions, which then convert back into photons after passing through an opaque wall. While similar searches have been performed previously at a 3^rd generation synchrotron [1], our work demonstrates improved sensitivity, exploiting the higher brightness of X-rays at EuXFEL. Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17333 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv