New ALPS results on hidden-sector lightweights

By K. Ehret, M. Frede, S. Ghazaryan, M. Hildebrandt, E. Knabbe, D. Kracht, A. Lindner, J. List, T. Meier, N. Meyer and 13 more. 2010

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The ALPS collaboration runs a “Light Shining through a Wall” (LSW) experiment to search for photon oscillations into “Weakly Interacting Sub-eV Particles” (WISPs) often predicted by extensions of the Standard Model. The experiment is set up around a superconducting HERA dipole magnet at the site of DESY. Due to several upgrades of the experiment we are able to place limits on the probability of photon-WISP-photon conversions of a few 10 25 . These limits result in today’s most stringent laboratory constraints on the existence of low mass axion-like particles, hidden photons and minicharged particles.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• The type IIB string axiverse and its low-energy phenomenology (2012, background): “Recently, a number of such experiments were performed; among them, ALPS was the most sensitive one, improving the limit to [89]: giγ < 6.”
• Testing string vacua in the lab: from a hidden CMB to dark forces in flux compactifications (2011, background): “Furthermore they can be detected in the lab by four different means: via string resonances and deviations from Standard Model quark scattering at the LHC; at light shining through a wall experiments such as ALPS; they lead to large extra dimensions and light moduli mediating long range fifth forces ”
• Exploring the Role of Axions and Other WISPs in the Dark Universe (2012, methodology): “The currently best WISP sensitivity exploiting the LSW technique has been reached by the first Any Light Particle Search (ALPS-I) experiment in Hamburg [127, 128], which was set up using a superconducting HERA dipole magnet at the site of DESY, with the first half of the magnet, the production regio”