Search for Axionlike Particles Using a Variable-Baseline Photon-Regeneration Technique
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, 450 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 (United States)
We report the first results of the GammeV experiment, a search for milli-eV mass particles with axionlike couplings to two photons. The search is performed using a ''light shining through a wall'' technique where incident photons oscillate into new weakly interacting particles that are able to pass through the wall and subsequently regenerate back into detectable photons. The oscillation baseline of the apparatus is variable, thus allowing probes of different values of particle mass. We find no excess of events above background and are able to constrain the two-photon couplings of possible new scalar (pseudoscalar) particles to be less than 3.1x10{sup -7} GeV{sup -1} (3.5x10{sup -7} GeV{sup -1}) in the limit of massless particles.
- OSTI ID:
- 21024800
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.080402; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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