TY - CONF AU - Ferretti, J. TI - STAX. An Axion-like Particle Search with Microwave Photons IS - DESY-PROC-2016-03 CY - Hamburg PB - Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron M1 - PUBDB-2017-12139 M1 - DESY-PROC-2016-03 SN - 978-3-945931-06-6 T2 - DESY-PROC SP - 35-38 PY - 2017 AB - We discuss an improved detection scheme for a light-shining-through-wall (LSW) experiment for axion-like particle searches. We propose to use: gyrotrons or klystrons, which can provide extremely intense photon fluxes at frequencies around 30 GHz; transition-edge-sensors (TES) single photon detectors in this frequency domain, with efficiency ≈ 1; high quality factor Fabry-Perot cavities in the microwave domain, both on the photon-axion conversion and photon regeneration sides. We compute that present laboratory exclusion limits on axion-like particles might be improved by at least four orders of magnitude for axion masses <~0.02 meV. T2 - 12th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs CY - 20 Jun 2016 - 24 Jun 2016, Jeju Island (South Korea) Y2 - 20 Jun 2016 - 24 Jun 2016 M2 - Jeju Island, South Korea LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)29 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)8 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)7 DO - DOI:10.3204/DESY-PROC-2009-03/Ferretti_Jacopo UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/395474 ER -