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Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 120401 (2008) [4 pages]

Experimental Limit on Optical-Photon Coupling to Light Neutral Scalar Bosons

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A. Afanasev1, O. K. Baker2, K. B. Beard3, G. Biallas4, J. Boyce4, M. Minarni5, R. Ramdon1, M. Shinn4, and P. Slocum2
1Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia 23668, USA
2Department of Physics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
3Muons, Inc., 552 N. Batavia Avenue, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
4Free Electron Laser Division, Jefferson Laboratory, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
5Department of Physics, Riau University (UNRI), Fisika FMIPA UNRI, Kampus Binawidya km 12.5 Simpang Baru, Pekanbaru, Riau 28293 Indonesia

Received 6 June 2008; published 15 September 2008

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 meV (milli-electron volts) and coupling strength greater than 10-6  GeV-1 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.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.120401
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.120401
PACS:
12.20.Fv, 11.30.Ly, 12.60.Cn, 13.40.Hq
 
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