Beyond the Standard Model Searches Using a Free Electron Laser

Journal Article · Wed Feb 10 04:00:00 EST 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3327543· OSTI ID:21349509

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, VA 23668 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, CT 06520 (United States)
3. Muons, Inc., 552 N. Batavia Avenue, Batavia, IL 60510 (United States)
4. Free Electron Laser Division, Jefferson Laboratory, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606 (United States)
5. Department of Physics, Universitas Riau (UNRI), Pekanbaru, Riau 28293 (Indonesia)

Much of the focus of Beyond the Standard Model physics searches is on the TeV scale, making use of hadron and lepton colliders. Additionally, however, there is the means to make these searches in different regions of parameter space using sub-electron volt photons from a Free Electron Laser, for example. We report on the experimental results of searches for optical-wavelength photons mixing with hypothetical hidden-sector paraphotons in the mass range between 10{sup -5} and 10{sup -2} electron volts for a mixing parameter greater than 10{sup -7}. We also report on the results of a sensitive search for scalar coupling of photons to light neutral bosons in the mass range of approximately 1.0 milli-electron volts and coupling strength greater than 10{sup -6} GeV{sup -1}. These were generation-regeneration experiments using the 'light shining through a wall' technique in which regenerated photons are searched for downstream of an optical barrier that separates it from an upstream generation region. The present results indicate no evidence for photon-paraphoton mixing or for scalar couplings of bosons to photons for the range of parameters investigated.

• OSTI ID: 21349509
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1200; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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