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author Halliday, Jack W. D.
Marocco, Giacomo
Beyer, Konstantin A.
Heaton, Charles
Nakatsutsumi, Motoaki
Preston, Thomas R.
Arrowsmith, Charles D.
Baehtz, Carsten
Goede, Sebastian
Humphries, Oliver
Garcia, Alejandro Laso
Plackett, Richard
Svensson, Pontus
Vacalis, Georgios
Wark, Justin
Wood, Daniel
Zastrau, Ulf
Bingham, Robert
Shipsey, Ian
Sarkar, Subir
Gregori, Gianluca
author_facet Halliday, Jack W. D.
Marocco, Giacomo
Beyer, Konstantin A.
Heaton, Charles
Nakatsutsumi, Motoaki
Preston, Thomas R.
Arrowsmith, Charles D.
Baehtz, Carsten
Goede, Sebastian
Humphries, Oliver
Garcia, Alejandro Laso
Plackett, Richard
Svensson, Pontus
Vacalis, Georgios
Wark, Justin
Wood, Daniel
Zastrau, Ulf
Bingham, Robert
Shipsey, Ian
Sarkar, Subir
Gregori, Gianluca
contents We present new exclusion bounds obtained at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser facility (EuXFEL) on axion-like particles (ALPs) in the mass range 10^{-3} eV < m_a < 10^4 eV. Our experiment exploits the Primakoff effect via which photons can, in the presence of a strong external electric field, decay into axions, which then convert back into photons after passing through an opaque wall. While similar searches have been performed previously at a 3^rd generation synchrotron, our work demonstrates improved sensitivity, exploiting the higher brightness of X-rays at EuXFEL.
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spellingShingle Bounds on heavy axions with an X-ray free electron laser
Halliday, Jack W. D.
Marocco, Giacomo
Beyer, Konstantin A.
Heaton, Charles
Nakatsutsumi, Motoaki
Preston, Thomas R.
Arrowsmith, Charles D.
Baehtz, Carsten
Goede, Sebastian
Humphries, Oliver
Garcia, Alejandro Laso
Plackett, Richard
Svensson, Pontus
Vacalis, Georgios
Wark, Justin
Wood, Daniel
Zastrau, Ulf
Bingham, Robert
Shipsey, Ian
Sarkar, Subir
Gregori, Gianluca
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Atomic Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
We present new exclusion bounds obtained at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser facility (EuXFEL) on axion-like particles (ALPs) in the mass range 10^{-3} eV < m_a < 10^4 eV. Our experiment exploits the Primakoff effect via which photons can, in the presence of a strong external electric field, decay into axions, which then convert back into photons after passing through an opaque wall. While similar searches have been performed previously at a 3^rd generation synchrotron, our work demonstrates improved sensitivity, exploiting the higher brightness of X-rays at EuXFEL.
title Bounds on heavy axions with an X-ray free electron laser
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Atomic Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17333