New Experimental limit on Optical Photon Coupling to Neutral, Scalar Bosons
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Optics
Abstract
We report on the first results of a sensitive search for scalar coupling of photons to a light neutral boson in the mass range of approximately 1.0 milli-electron volts and coupling strength greater than 10 GeV using optical photons. This was a photon regeneration experiment using the "light shining through a wall" technique in which laser light was passed through a strong magnetic field upstream of an optical beam dump; regenerated laser light was then searched for downstream of a second magnetic field region optically shielded from the former. Our results show no evidence for scalar coupling in this region of parameter space.
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@article{arxiv.0806.2631,
title = {New Experimental limit on Optical Photon Coupling to Neutral, Scalar Bosons},
author = {A. Afanasev and O. K. Baker and K. B. Beard and G. Biallas and J. Boyce and M. Minarni and R. Ramdon and M. Shinn and P. Slocum},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2631},
year = {2008}
}
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pdf-file, 10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters