New Experimental limit on Optical Photon Coupling to Neutral, Scalar Bosons

Abstract

We report on the first results of a sensitive search for scalar coupling of photons to a light neutral boson in the mass range of approximately 1.0 milli-electron volts and coupling strength greater than 10${}^{-}6$ GeV${}^{-}1$ using optical photons. This was a photon regeneration experiment using the "light shining through a wall" technique in which laser light was passed through a strong magnetic field upstream of an optical beam dump; regenerated laser light was then searched for downstream of a second magnetic field region optically shielded from the former. Our results show no evidence for scalar coupling in this region of parameter space.

pdf-file, 10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters

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