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TY - JOUR
T1 - Plasma-based wakefield accelerators as sources of axion-like particles
AU - Burton, David Antony
AU - Noble, Adam
PY - 2018/3/28
Y1 - 2018/3/28
N2 - We estimate the average flux density of minimally-coupled axion-like particles generated by a laser-driven plasma wakefield propagating along a constant strong magnetic field. Our calculations suggest that a terrestrial source based on this approach could generate a pulse of axion-like particles whose flux density is comparable to that of solar axion-like particles at Earth. This mechanism is optimal for axion-like particles with mass in the range of interest of contemporary experiments designed to detect dark matter using microwave cavities.
AB - We estimate the average flux density of minimally-coupled axion-like particles generated by a laser-driven plasma wakefield propagating along a constant strong magnetic field. Our calculations suggest that a terrestrial source based on this approach could generate a pulse of axion-like particles whose flux density is comparable to that of solar axion-like particles at Earth. This mechanism is optimal for axion-like particles with mass in the range of interest of contemporary experiments designed to detect dark matter using microwave cavities.
KW - DRIVEN
KW - ELECTRON-BEAMS
KW - INVISIBLE AXION
KW - LASER
KW - axion-like particle production
KW - high-intensity lasers
KW - nonlinear plasma waves
KW - strong magnetic field
U2 - 10.1088/1367-2630/aab475
DO - 10.1088/1367-2630/aab475
M3 - Journal article
VL - 20
JO - New Journal of Physics
JF - New Journal of Physics
SN - 1367-2630
M1 - 033022
ER -