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Design of the Setup for the AnaBHEL Experiment

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The AnaBHEL experiment aims to detect the analog Hawking radiation emitted by an accelerated relativistic plasma mirror for which the effective event horizon is analogous to that of a black hole, thanks to the equivalence principle. This radiation is composed of a few Hawking photons emitted simultaneously in the infrared band and the ‘partner photons’ in the ultraviolet band. The former is emitted in the opposite direction of the mirror propagation and is redshifted in the laboratory frame. In the AnaBHEL scheme, high-intensity petawatt laser pulses, will be used to produce the relativistic accelerated plasma mirrors from a helium gas jet. Infrared and ultraviolet photons generated by the mirrors will be detected by dedicated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) at very low temperature and by multichannel plates at room temperature, respectively. Details of the setup design are discussed.

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XN wrote the main manuscript text and prepared figure 2. Figure 1 has been produced within the AnaBHEL collaboration (see references). Many members of the collaboration reviewed the present paper

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Navick, XF., for the AnaBHEL Experiment. Design of the Setup for the AnaBHEL Experiment. J Low Temp Phys 214, 158–163 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-023-03032-7

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