Production and Detection of Axion-Like Particles in a HERA Dipole Magnet - Letter-of-Intent for the ALPS experiment -
| dc.creator | Ehret, Klaus | |
| dc.creator | Frede, Maik | |
| dc.creator | Knabbe, Ernst-Axel | |
| dc.creator | Kracht, Dietmar | |
| dc.creator | Lindner, Axel | |
| dc.creator | Meyer, Niels | |
| dc.creator | Notz, Dieter | |
| dc.creator | Ringwald, Andreas | |
| dc.creator | Wiedemann, Guenter | |
| dc.date | 2007-02-13 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:46:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:46:35Z | |
| dc.description | Recently, the PVLAS collaboration has reported evidence for an anomalous rotation of the polarization of light in vacuum in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. This may be explained through the production of a new light spin-zero (axion-like) neutral particle coupled to two photons. In this letter-of-intent, we propose to test this hypothesis by setting up a photon regeneration experiment which exploits the photon beam of a high-power infrared laser, sent along the transverse magnetic field of a superconducting HERA dipole magnet. The proposed ALPS (Axion-Like Particle Search) experiment offers a window of opportunity for a rapid firm establishment or exclusion of the axion-like particle interpretation of the anomaly published by PVALS. It will also allow for the measurement of mass, parity, and coupling strength of this particle. [The experiment has been approved by the DESY directorate on January 11, 2007.] | |
| dc.description | 11 pages, 13 figures, pdf file including high quality figures available at the webpage of the ALPS experiment: http://alps.desy.de | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0702023 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0702023 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/123872 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Experiment | |
| dc.title | Production and Detection of Axion-Like Particles in a HERA Dipole Magnet - Letter-of-Intent for the ALPS experiment - | |
| dc.type | text |