Production and detection of axions by using optical resonators

✍ Scribed by Yukio Fukuda; Toshiro Kohmoto; Shin-ichi Nakajima; Masakuzu Kunitomo

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 203 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-8974
• DOI: 10.1016/0960-8974(96)83672-2

✦ Synopsis

We propose a new scheme of experiments for detecting the invisible a.xion, which is required by the standard theory of elementary particle. In the experiment, photons from a laser are converted to axions in a magnetic field, and photons reproduced from these axions in another magnetic field are to be detected. By introducing optical resonators in both conversion processes, the signal photons are enhanced by a factor of F1F~, where F, (~ 104) is the finesse of the i-th resonator. A preliminary experiment is described.