Interference-assisted resonant detection of axions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2019-02-13 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Atomic Physics
Abstract
Detection schemes for the quantum chromodynamics axions and other axion-like particles in light-shining-through-a-wall (LSW) experiments are based on the conversion of these particles into photons in a magnetic field. An alternative scheme may involve the detection via a resonant atomic or molecular transition induced by resonant axion absorption. The signal obtained in this process is second order in the axion-electron interaction constant but may become first order if we allow interference between the axion-induced transition amplitude and the transition amplitude induced by the electromagnetic radiation that produces the axions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1803.09388,
title = {Interference-assisted resonant detection of axions},
author = {H. B. Tran Tan and V. V. Flambaum and I. B. Samsonov and Y. V. Stadnik and D. Budker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.09388},
year = {2019}
}
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12 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables