Research work · 1987
Proposed experiment to produce and detect light pseudoscalars
K. van Bibber, N.R. Dagdeviren, S. E. Koonin, Arthur K. Kerman, H. Nelson
Physical Review Letters
Abstract
We propose a laboratory experiment to produce and detect a light neutral pseudoscalar particle that couples to two photons. The pseudoscalar would be produced by a (real) photon from a laser beam interacting with a second (virtual) photon from a static magnetic field; it would be detected after it reconverts to a real photon in a duplicate magnetic field. The bounds on the coupling constant that could be obtained from a null result in such an experiment compete favorably with astrophysical limits and would substantially improve those from direct measurements.