Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-07-13
Phys.Lett.B659:509-514,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
11 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.071
We 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 \chi~10^{-12} to 10^{-8}, for paraphotons with masses in the \mu eV 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.
Jaeckel Joerg
Ringwald Andreas
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