Magnetically amplified tunneling of the 3rd kind as a probe of minicharged particles
arXiv:1203.2533 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.131802
Abstract
We show that magnetic fields significantly enhance a new tunneling mechanism in quantum-field theories with photons coupling to fermionic minicharged particles. We propose a dedicated laboratory experiment of the light-shining-through-walls type that can explore a parameter regime comparable to and even beyond the best model-independent cosmological bounds. With present-day technology, such an experiment is particularly sensitive to minicharged particles with masses in and below the meV regime.
5 pages, 2 figures; some clarifications added, matches version published in PRL
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