Experimental Limit on Optical-Photon Coupling to Light Neutral Scalar Bosons

Journal Article · Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2008 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.101.120401· OSTI ID:21179715

Afanasev, A; Ramdon, R ^[1]; Baker, O K; Slocum, P ^[2]; Beard, K B ^[3]; Biallas, G; Boyce, J; Shinn, M ^[4]; Minarni, M ^[5]

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1. Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia 23668 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 (United States)
3. Muons, Inc., 552 N. Batavia Avenue, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
4. Free Electron Laser Division, Jefferson Laboratory, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)
5. Department of Physics, Riau University (UNRI), Fisika FMIPA UNRI, Kampus Binawidya km 12.5 Simpang Baru, Pekanbaru, Riau 28293 Indonesia (Indonesia)

We report on the first results of a sensitive search for scalar coupling of photons to a light neutral boson in the mass range of approximately 1.0 meV (milli-electron volts) and coupling strength greater than 10{sup -6} GeV{sup -1} using optical photons. This was a photon regeneration experiment using the 'light shining through a wall' technique in which laser light was passed through a strong magnetic field upstream of an optical beam dump; regenerated laser light was then searched for downstream of a second magnetic field region optically shielded from the former. Our results show no evidence for scalar coupling in this region of parameter space.

• OSTI ID: 21179715
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, Issue 12; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.120401; (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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