Status of the ALPS Experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2008-12-19 v2
Abstract
The ALPS experiment at DESY searches for light particles which are coupling very weakly to photons. Primary physics goal is the search for axion like particles in a photon regeneration experiment. Central part of the experimental setup is a five Tesla strong superconducting HERA dipole magnet. During two operation periods in the years 2007 and 2008 we have collected first data and explored the sensitivity of the setup. A Fabry Perot laser cavity is being set up in order to increase the sensitivity by more than one order of magnitude.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.3495,
title = {Status of the ALPS Experiment},
author = {K. Ehret},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.3495},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures, contribution to 4th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs at DESY June 2008