Abstract
We have searched for axion-like resonance states by colliding optical photons in a focused laser field (creation beam) by adding another laser field (inducing beam) for stimulation of the resonance decays, where frequency-converted signal photons can be created as a result of stimulated photon-photon scattering via exchanges of axion-like resonances. A quasi-parallel collision system (QPS) in such a focused field allows access to the sub-eV mass range of resonance particles. In past searches in QPS, for simplicity, we interpreted the scattering rate based on an analytically calculable symmetric collision geometry in both incident angles and incident energies by partially implementing the asymmetric nature to meet the actual experimental conditions. In this paper, we present new search results based on a complete parameterization including fully asymmetric collisional geometries. In particular, we combined a linearly polarized creation laser and a circularly polarized inducing laser to match the new parameterization. A 0.10 mJ/31 fs Ti:sapphire laser pulse and a 0.20 mJ/9 ns Nd:YAG laser pulse were spatiotemporally synchronized by sharing a common optical axis and focused into the vacuum system. Under a condition in which atomic background processes were completely negligible, no significant scattering signal was observed at the vacuum pressure of 2.6 × 10−5 Pa, thereby providing upper bounds on the coupling-mass relation by assuming exchanges of scalar and pseudoscalar fields at a 95% confidence level in the sub-eV mass range.
Article PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript.
References
Y. Nambu, Quasiparticles and Gauge Invariance in the Theory of Superconductivity, Phys. Rev. 117 (1960) 648 [INSPIRE].
J. Goldstone, Field Theories with Superconductor Solutions, Nuovo Cim. 19 (1961) 154 [INSPIRE].
R.D. Peccei and H.R. Quinn, CP Conservation in the Presence of Instantons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 38 (1977) 1440 [INSPIRE].
S. Weinberg, A New Light Boson?, Phys. Rev. Lett. 40 (1978) 223 [INSPIRE].
M.A. Shupe et al., Proton Compton Scattering and Neutral Pion Photoproduction at Large Angles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 40 (1978) 271 [INSPIRE].
J. Preskill, M.B. Wise and F. Wilczek, Cosmology of the Invisible Axion, Phys. Lett. B 120 (1983) 127 [INSPIRE].
L.F. Abbott and P. Sikivie, A Cosmological Bound on the Invisible Axion, Phys. Lett. B 120 (1983) 133 [INSPIRE].
M. Dine and W. Fischler, The Not So Harmless Axion, Phys. Lett. B 120 (1983) 137 [INSPIRE].
J.E. Kim, Weak Interaction Singlet and Strong CP Invariance, Phys. Rev. Lett. 43 (1979) 103 [INSPIRE].
M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein and V.I. Zakharov, Can Confinement Ensure Natural CP Invariance of Strong Interactions?, Nucl. Phys. B 166 (1980) 493 [INSPIRE].
Y. Fujii and K. Maeda, The Scalar-Tensor Theory of Gravitation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge U.K. (2003).
R. Daido, F. Takahashi and W. Yin, The ALP miracle: unified inflaton and dark matter, JCAP 05 (2017) 044 [arXiv:1702.03284] [INSPIRE].
A. Arvanitaki, S. Dimopoulos, S. Dubovsky, N. Kaloper and J. March-Russell, String Axiverse, Phys. Rev. D 81 (2010) 123530 [arXiv:0905.4720] [INSPIRE].
B.S. Acharya, K. Bobkov and P. Kumar, An M-theory Solution to the Strong CP Problem and Constraints on the Axiverse, JHEP 11 (2010) 105 [arXiv:1004.5138] [INSPIRE].
M. Cicoli, M. Goodsell and A. Ringwald, The type IIB string axiverse and its low-energy phenomenology, JHEP 10 (2012) 146 [arXiv:1206.0819] [INSPIRE].
XENON collaboration, Excess electronic recoil events in XENON1T, Phys. Rev. D 102 (2020) 072004 [arXiv:2006.09721] [INSPIRE].
M. Dine, W. Fischler and M. Srednicki, A Simple Solution to the Strong CP Problem with a Harmless Axion, Phys. Lett. B 104 (1981) 199 [INSPIRE].
A.R. Zhitnitsky, On Possible Suppression of the Axion Hadron Interactions (in Russian), Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. 31 (1980) 260 [Yad. Fiz. 31 (1980) 497] [INSPIRE].
J.E. Kim, Weak Interaction Singlet and Strong CP Invariance, Phys. Rev. Lett. 43 (1979) 103 [INSPIRE].
M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein and V.I. Zakharov, Can Confinement Ensure Natural CP Invariance of Strong Interactions?, Nucl. Phys. B 166 (1980) 493 [INSPIRE].
M.M. Miller Bertolami, B.E. Melendez, L.G. Althaus and J. Isern, Revisiting the axion bounds from the Galactic white dwarf luminosity function, JCAP 10 (2014) 069 [arXiv:1406.7712] [INSPIRE].
A. Ayala, I. Domínguez, M. Giannotti, A. Mirizzi and O. Straniero, Revisiting the bound on axion-photon coupling from Globular Clusters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 (2014) 191302 [arXiv:1406.6053] [INSPIRE].
N. Viaux et al., Neutrino and axion bounds from the globular cluster M5 (NGC 5904), Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 (2013) 231301 [arXiv:1311.1669] [INSPIRE].
M. Giannotti, I.G. Irastorza, J. Redondo, A. Ringwald and K. Saikawa, Stellar Recipes for Axion Hunters, JCAP 10 (2017) 010 [arXiv:1708.02111] [INSPIRE].
L. Di Luzio, M. Giannotti, E. Nardi and L. Visinelli, The landscape of QCD axion models, Phys. Rept. 870 (2020) 1 [arXiv:2003.01100] [INSPIRE].
Y. Fujii and K. Homma, An approach toward the laboratory search for the scalar field as a candidate of Dark Energy, Prog. Theor. Phys. 126 (2011) 531 [Erratum ibid. 2014 (2014) 089203] [arXiv:1006.1762] [INSPIRE].
K. Homma and Y. Kirita, Stimulated radar collider for probing gravitationally weak coupling pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons, JHEP 09 (2020) 095 [arXiv:1909.00983] [INSPIRE].
K. Homma, T. Hasebe and K. Kume, The first search for sub-eV scalar fields via four-wave mixing at a quasi-parallel laser collider, Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2014 (2014) 083C01 [arXiv:1405.4133] [INSPIRE].
T. Hasebe et al., Search for sub-eV scalar and pseudoscalar resonances via four-wave mixing with a laser collider, Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2015 (2015) 073C01 [arXiv:1506.05581] [INSPIRE].
A. Nobuhiro et al., Extended search for sub-eV axion-like resonances via four-wave mixing with a quasi-parallel laser collider in a high-quality vacuum system, Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2020 (2020) 073C01 [arXiv:2004.10637] [INSPIRE].
S.A.J. Druet and J.-P.E. Taran, Cars spectroscopy, Prog. Quantum Electron. 7 (1981) 1.
K. Homma and Y. Toyota, Exploring pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons by stimulated photon colliders in the mass range 0.1 eV to 10 keV, Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2017 (2017) 063C01 [arXiv:1701.04282] [INSPIRE].
Particle Data collaboration, Review of Particle Physics (RPP), Phys. Rev. D 86 (2012) 010001 [INSPIRE].
OSQAR collaboration, New exclusion limits on scalar and pseudoscalar axionlike particles from light shining through a wall, Phys. Rev. D 92 (2015) 092002 [arXiv:1506.08082] [INSPIRE].
K. Ehret et al., New ALPS Results on Hidden-Sector Lightweights, Phys. Lett. B 689 (2010) 149 [arXiv:1004.1313] [INSPIRE].
A. Ejlli et al., The PVLAS experiment: A 25 year effort to measure vacuum magnetic birefringence, Phys. Rept. 871 (2020) 1 [arXiv:2005.12913] [INSPIRE].
Y. Su et al., New tests of the universality of free fall, Phys. Rev. D 50 (1994) 3614 [Erratum ibid. 51 (1995) 3135] [INSPIRE].
E.G. Adelberger, B.R. Heckel, S.A. Hoedl, C.D. Hoyle, D.J. Kapner and A. Upadhye, Particle Physics Implications of a Recent Test of the Gravitational Inverse Sqaure Law, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 131104 [hep-ph/0611223] [INSPIRE].
D.J. Kapner et al., Tests of the gravitational inverse-square law below the dark-energy length scale, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 021101 [hep-ph/0611184] [INSPIRE].
J. Chiaverini, S.J. Smullin, A.A. Geraci, D.M. Weld and A. Kapitulnik, New experimental constraints on nonNewtonian forces below 100 microns, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 151101 [hep-ph/0209325] [INSPIRE].
S.J. Smullin, A.A. Geraci, D.M. Weld, J. Chiaverini, S.P. Holmes and A. Kapitulnik, New constraints on Yukawa-type deviations from Newtonian gravity at 20 microns, Phys. Rev. D 72 (2005) 122001 [Erratum ibid. 72 (2005) 129901] [hep-ph/0508204] [INSPIRE].
S.K. Lamoreaux, Demonstration of the Casimir force in the 0.6 to 6 micrometers range, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 (1997) 5 [Erratum ibid. 81 (1998) 5475] [INSPIRE].
CAST collaboration, First results from the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST), Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 121301 [hep-ex/0411033] [INSPIRE].
CAST collaboration, An Improved limit on the axion-photon coupling from the CAST experiment, JCAP 04 (2007) 010 [hep-ex/0702006] [INSPIRE].
CAST collaboration, Probing eV-scale axions with CAST, JCAP 02 (2009) 008 [arXiv:0810.4482] [INSPIRE].
CAST collaboration, CAST search for sub-eV mass solar axions with 3 He buffer gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 (2011) 261302 [arXiv:1106.3919] [INSPIRE].
CAST collaboration, Search for Solar Axions by the CERN Axion Solar Telescope with 3He Buffer Gas: Closing the Hot Dark Matter Gap, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014) 091302 [arXiv:1307.1985] [INSPIRE].
CAST collaboration, New CAST Limit on the Axion-Photon Interaction, Nature Phys. 13 (2017) 584 [arXiv:1705.02290] [INSPIRE].
ADMX collaboration, An Improved RF cavity search for halo axions, Phys. Rev. D 69 (2004) 011101 [astro-ph/0310042] [INSPIRE].
ADMX collaboration, A SQUID-based microwave cavity search for dark-matter axions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 (2010) 041301 [arXiv:0910.5914] [INSPIRE].
ADMX collaboration, A Search for Invisible Axion Dark Matter with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (2018) 151301 [arXiv:1804.05750] [INSPIRE].
ADMX collaboration, Piezoelectrically Tuned Multimode Cavity Search for Axion Dark Matter, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 261302 [arXiv:1901.00920] [INSPIRE].
S. De Panfilis et al., Limits on the Abundance and Coupling of Cosmic Axions at 4.5 < ma < 5.0 μeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59 (1987) 839 [INSPIRE].
W.U. Wuensch et al., Results of a Laboratory Search for Cosmic Axions and Other Weakly Coupled Light Particles, Phys. Rev. D 40 (1989) 3153 [INSPIRE].
C. Hagmann, P. Sikivie, N.S. Sullivan and D.B. Tanner, Results from a search for cosmic axions, Phys. Rev. D 42 (1990) 1297 [INSPIRE].
B.M. Brubaker et al., First results from a microwave cavity axion search at 24 μeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118 (2017) 061302 [arXiv:1610.02580] [INSPIRE].
HAYSTAC collaboration, Results from phase 1 of the HAYSTAC microwave cavity axion experiment, Phys. Rev. D 97 (2018) 092001 [arXiv:1803.03690] [INSPIRE].
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Consortia
Corresponding author
Additional information
Publisher’s Note
Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
ArXiv ePrint: 2105.01224
Co-first author. (Kensuke Homma, Yuri Kirita)
Rights and permissions
Open Access . This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
About this article
Cite this article
The SAPPHIRES collaboration., Homma, K., Kirita, Y. et al. Search for sub-eV axion-like resonance states via stimulated quasi-parallel laser collisions with the parameterization including fully asymmetric collisional geometry. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 108 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2021)108
Received:
Revised:
Accepted:
Published:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2021)108