Weakly Interacting Sub-eV Particle Searches

Journal Article · Mon Aug 30 04:00:00 EDT 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3489549· OSTI ID:21426564

Afanasev, A; Ramdon, R ^[1]; Baker, O K; Jiang, Y; Kazakevitch, G; LaPointe, M A; Martin, A; Slocum, P; Szymkowiak, A ^[2]; Beard, K B ^[3]; Biallas, G; Boyce, J; Shinn, M ^[4]; Hirshfield, J L ^[2]; 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)

We make use of the generation-regeneration or 'light shining through a wall' technique in 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} and in sensitive searches for scalar and pseudoscalar 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}. Additionally, there is an effort underway to use photons in the microwave region using this same technique to make a more sensitive measurement in the mass range of approximately 0.1 milli-electron volts. The equipment in the latter effort will be used to search for galactic halo axions in this same mass range.

• OSTI ID: 21426564
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1274; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AXIONS
BASIC INTERACTIONS
BOSONS
COSMOLOGY
COUPLING
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELECTROMAGNETS
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY RANGE
EQUIPMENT
EV RANGE
FREE ELECTRON LASERS
GOLDSTONE BOSONS
INTERACTIONS
LASERS
MAGNETS
MASS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MICROWAVE RADIATION
PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PHOTONS
POSTULATED PARTICLES
RADIATION DETECTORS
RADIATIONS
REGENERATION
RESONATORS
REST MASS
SCALARS
SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES
SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS
WEAK INTERACTIONS