Mississippi State Axion Search: A Light Shining though a Wall ALP Search

Mohanmurthy, Prajwal; MASS Collaboration; Dutta, Dipangkar; Fowler, Nicholas; Oblath, Noah; Formaggio, Joseph; Powers, Adam; Jiang, Yipeng; Ray, Amy; Madsen, John; Riehle, Robertson; Gaerlan, Mikhail

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Mississippi State Axion Search: A Light Shining though a Wall ALP Search

Mohanmurthy, P. ; Dutta, D. ; Formaggio, J. ; Fowler, N. ; Gaerlan, M. ; Jiang, Y. ; Madsen, J. ; Oblath, N. ; Powers, A. ; Ray, A. ; Riehle, R. ; MASS Collaboration (Collaboration author)

2014
Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg
ISBN: 978-3-935702-59-1

Mohanmurthy, Prajwal "Mississippi State Axion Search: A Light Shining though a Wall ALP Search" in Proceedings, 10th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs (AXION-WIMP 2014) / Tsesmelis, Emmanuel, Maroudas, Marios (eds.), Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron : 2014 ; AXION-WIMP 2014 : 10th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, 2014-06-29 - 2014-07-04, Geneva
10th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, AXION-WIMP 2014, Geneva, Switzerland, 29 Jun 2014 - 4 Jul 2014 Hamburg : Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY-PROC 113-116 (2014) [10.3204/DESY-PROC-2014-03/mohanmurthy_prajwal]

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Abstract: The elegant solutions to the strong CP problem predict the existence of a particle called axion. Thus, the search for axion like particles (ALP) has been an ongoing endeavor. The possibility that these axion like particles couple to photons in presence of magnetic field gives rise to a technique of detecting these particles known as light shining through a wall (LSW). Mississippi State Axion Search (MASS) is an experiment employing the LSW technique in search for axion like particles. The apparatus consists of two radio frequency (RF) cavities, both under the influence of strong magnetic field and separated by a lead wall. While one of the cavities houses a strong RF generator, the other cavity houses the detector systems. The MASS apparatus looks for excesses in RF photons that tunnel through the wall as a signature of candidate axion-like particles. The concept behind the experiment as well as the projected sensitivities are presented here.

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