Axion beams at HERA?

by Mr Krzysztof Piotrzkowski

Wednesday 24 Jan 2007, 13:00 → 14:00 Europe/Brussels

Cycl 06

If the recently observed anomaly in the PVLAS experiment is due to the axion, then the powerful beams of synchrotron photons, propagating through high magnetic field of the HERA beamline, become strong axion sources. This gives a unique opportunity of detection of the axion-photon interactions by installing a small detector in the HERA tunnel, and to corroborate the axion hypothesis within a few days of running. (CP3-07-01 preprint http://cp3.phys.ucl.ac.be/index.php?src=list_preprint)

paper http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0701059