Production and detection of very light bosons in the HERA tunnel

Details Production and detection of very light bosons in the HERA tunnel Production and detection of very light bosons in the HERA tunnel

2003-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0306106v1

Phys.Lett. B569 (2003) 51-56

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

10 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2003.07.015

There are strong theoretical arguments in favour of the existence of very light scalar or pseudoscalar particles beyond the Standard Model which have, so far, remained undetected, due to their very weak coupling to ordinary matter. We point out that after HERA has been decommissioned, there arises a unique opportunity for searches for such particles: a number of HERA's four hundred superconducting dipole magnets might be recycled and used for laboratory experiments to produce and detect light neutral bosons that couple to two photons, such as the axion. We show that, in this way, laser experiments searching for photon regeneration or polarization effects in strong magnetic fields can reach a sensitivity which is unprecedented in pure laboratory experiments and exceeds astrophysical limits from stellar evolution considerations.

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