A Cavity Experiment to Search for Hidden Sector Photons

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dc.creatorJaeckel, Joerg
dc.creatorRingwald, Andreas
dc.date2007-07-13
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dc.descriptionWe propose a cavity experiment to search for low mass extra U(1) gauge bosons with gauge-kinetic mixing with the ordinary photon, so-called paraphotons. The setup consists of two microwave cavities shielded from each other. In one cavity, paraphotons are produced via photon-paraphoton oscillations. The second, resonant, cavity is then driven by the paraphotons that permeate the shielding and reconvert into photons. This setup resembles the classic ``light shining through a wall'' setup. However, the high quality factors achievable for microwave cavities and the good sensitivity of microwave detectors allow for a projected sensitivity for photon-paraphoton mixing of the order of χ~10^{-12} to 10^{-8}, for paraphotons with masses in the μeV to meV range -- exceeding the current laboratory- and astrophysics-based limits by several orders of magnitude. Therefore, this experiment bears significant discovery potential for hidden sector physics.
dc.description11 pages, 5 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2063
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2063
dc.identifierPhys.Lett.B659:509-514,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.071
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/193124
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleA Cavity Experiment to Search for Hidden Sector Photons
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