Sensitivity to axion-like particles with a three-beam stimulated resonant photon collider around the eV mass range

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel three-beam laser setup to detect axion-like particles in the eV mass range, achieving high sensitivity to their coupling with photons using short-pulsed lasers.

Contribution

It introduces a new stimulated resonant photon collider concept with focused laser fields for direct ALP production and decay detection.

Findings

Sensitivity to ALP-photon coupling can reach ~10^{-14} GeV^{-1}.

Effective for axion-like particles in the eV mass range.

Uses 1 Joule class short-pulsed lasers.

Abstract

We propose a three-beam stimulated resonant photon collider with focused laser fields in order to directly produce an axion-like particle (ALP) with the two beams and to stimulate its decay by the remaining one. The expected sensitivity around the eV mass range has been evaluated. The result shows that the sensitivity can reach the ALP-photon coupling down to $\mathcal{O}(10^{-14})$ GeV${}^{-1}$ with 1 J class short-pulsed lasers.