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We investigate the nonlinear Compton photon source for upcoming laser-particle experiments in the collision scenario of high-energy electron beams and relativistic laser pulses. The stronger laser field could not only improve the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Yu Xin , Zu-dong Zhao , Suo Tang

Oscillations of photons into axion-like particles in a high-intensity laser field are investigated. Nonlinear QED effects are considered through the low energy behavior of the vacuum polarization tensor, which is derived from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-03 Selym Villalba-Chávez

Evidence for light-by-light (LbL) scattering, $\gamma\gamma\to\gamma\gamma$, in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV is reported. LbL scattering processes are selected in events with just…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 David d'Enterria

Axion or axionlike particles are one of the leading candidates for dark matter. Because of its tiny coupling with photons, axion dark matter in the background can induce distinct phase velocities for light with different parity, an effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-04 Yue-Hui Yao , Tingyuan Jiang , Yong Tang

When exposed to intense electromagnetic fields, the quantum vacuum is expected to exhibit properties of a polarisable medium akin to a weakly nonlinear dielectric material. Various schemes have been proposed to measure such vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-08 B. King , T. Heinzl

We studied the feasibility of observing light-by-light scattering in a photon-photon collider based on an existing accelerator complex and a commercially available laser system. We investigated the statistical significance of the signal…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-14 T. Takahashi , G. An , Y. Chen , W. Chou , Y. Huang , W. Liu , W. Lu , J. Lv , G. Pei , S. Pei , C. P. Shen , B. Sun , C. Zhang , C. Zhang

We consider the scenario of excitons in a semiconductor bilayer that are strongly coupled to cavity photons, leading to the formation of dipolar exciton polaritons (dipolaritons). Using a realistic pseudopotential for the dipolar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Yasufumi Nakano , Olivier Bleu , Brendan C. Mulkerin , Jesper Levinsen , Meera M. Parish

We report on new results of a search for two-photon interaction with axionlike particles (ALPs). The experiment was carried out at a synchrotron radiation facility using a "light shining through a wall (LSW)" technique. For this purpose, we…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-02-21 T. Inada , T. Yamazaki , T. Namba , S. Asai , T. Kobayashi , K. Tamasaku , Y. Tanaka , Y. Inubushi , K. Sawada , M. Yabashi , T. Ishikawa , A. Matsuo , K. Kawaguchi , K. Kindo , H. Nojiri

The existence of an axion-like particle (ALP) would induce anomalous scattering of light by light. This process can be probed at the Large Hadron Collider in central exclusive production of photon pairs in proton-proton collisions by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Cristian Baldenegro , Sylvain Fichet , Gero von Gersdorff , Christophe Royon

Evidence for the light-by-light scattering process, $\gamma\gamma$ $\to$ $\gamma\gamma$, in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV is reported. The analysis is conducted using a data sample…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-09-02 CMS Collaboration

We propose a new axion dark matter detection strategy that employs optical readout of laser-beam ellipticity modulations caused by axion-induced electric fields in a microwave cavity, using electro-optic (EO) crystals, enhanced by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-19 Hooman Davoudiasl , Yannis K. Semertzidis

We explore the phenomenological consequences of a model with axion-like particles and hidden photons mixing with photons. In this model, the hidden photon is directly coupled to the photon, while the axion coupling is induced by an external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-23 P. D. Alvarez , Paola Arias , Carlos Maldonado

The scattering of a positron by a muon in the presence of a linearly polarized laser field is investigated in the first Born approximation. The theoretical results reveals: 1) at large scattering angle, an amount of multiphoton processes…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Wen-Yuan Du , Bing-Hong Wang , Shu-Min Li

We present a comprehensive phenomenological analysis of the Radion in the Randall-Sundrum model, focusing on its production via light-by-light scattering in ultra-peripheral proton-proton collisions at the LHC. We provide a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Malak Ait Tamlihat , Ghizlane Ez-Zobayr , Laurent Schoeffel , Yahya Tayalati

Light-by-light scatterings contain rich information on the photon coupling to virtual and real particle states. In the context of quantum electrodynamics (QED), photons can couple to a virtual $e^+e^-$ pair. Photons may also couple to known…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-06-21 Kensuke Homma , Kayo Matsuura , Kazuhisa Nakajima

We investigate the prospects for discovering axion-like particles (ALPs) via a light-by-light (LBL) scattering at two colliders, the future circular collider (FCC-ee) and circular electron-positron collider (CEPC). The promising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Hua-Ying Zhang , Chong-Xing Yue , Yu-Chen Guo , Shuo Yang

Photons preferentially Compton scatter perpendicular to the plane of polarisation. This property can be exploited to design instruments to measure the linear polarisation of hard X-rays ($\sim$10 - 100 keV). Photons may undergo two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-25 Ettore Del Monte , Sergio Fabiani , Mark Pearce

The prospect of identifying axion signals due to axion-photon coupling induced changes to the polarization has now become a reality in view of near-horizon polarimetric observations by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Axion-like particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-04 Dashon Michel Jones , Richard Anantua , Razieh Emami , Nate Lujan

The elegant solutions to the strong CP problem predict the existence of a particle called axion. Thus, the search for axion like particles (ALP) has been an ongoing endeavor. The possibility that these axion like particles couple to photons…

We derive a simple expression for the photon helicity and polarisation-flip probabilities in arbitrary background fields, in the low energy regime. Taking the background to model a focused laser beam, we study the impact of pulse shape and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-28 Victor Dinu , Tom Heinzl , Anton Ilderton , Mattias Marklund , Greger Torgrimsson