Results from the OSQAR photon-regeneration experiment: No light shining through a wall

Journal Article · Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.78.092003· OSTI ID:21254591

Pugnat, Pierre; Siemko, Andrzej ^[1]; Duvillaret, Lionel; Vitrant, Guy ^[2]; Jost, Remy; Romanini, Daniele ^[3]; Ballou, Rafik; Barbara, Bernard ^[4]; Finger, Michael; Finger, Miroslav ^[5]; Hosek, Jan; Zicha, Josef ^[6]; Kral, Miroslav ^[1]; Meissner, Krzysztof A ^[7]; Sulc, Miroslav ^[8]

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1. CERN, CH-1211 Geneva-23 (Switzerland)
2. IMEP-LAHC, UMR CNRS 5130, Minatec-INPG, 3 parvis Louis Neel, BP 257, 38016 Grenoble Cedex-1 (France)
3. LSP, UMR CNRS 5588, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 87, 38402 Saint-Martin d'Heres (France)
4. Institut NEEL, CNRS and Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex-9 (France)
5. Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague (Czech Republic)
6. Czech Technical University, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Prague (Czech Republic)
7. Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw (Poland)
8. Technical University of Liberec (Czech Republic)

A new method to amplify the photon-axion conversions in a magnetic field is proposed using a buffer gas at a specific pressure in a photon-regeneration experiment. As a first result, new bounds for mass and coupling constant for laboratory experiments aiming to detect any hypothetical scalars and pseudoscalars, which can couple to photons were obtained, excluding with 95% confidence level, the recently withdrawn PVLAS result.

• OSTI ID: 21254591
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 78, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.092003; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
AXIONS
CONVERSION
COUPLING CONSTANTS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MASS
PHOTONS
PSEUDOSCALARS
REGENERATION