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@ARTICLE{Watt:622591,
author = {Watt, R. and Kettle, B. and Gerstmayr, E. and King, B. and
Alejo, A. and Astbury, S. and Baird, C. and Bohlen, S. and
Campbell, M. and Colgan, C. and Dannheim, D. and Gregory, C.
and Harsh, H. and Hatfield, P. and Hinojosa, J. and Hollatz,
D. and Katzir, Y. and Morton, J. and Murphy, C. D. and
Nurnberg, A. and Osterhoff, J. and Pérez-Callejo, G. and
Põder, K. and Rajeev, P. P. and Roedel, C. and Roeder, F.
and Salgado, F. C. and Samarin, G. M. and Sarri, G. and
Seidel, A. and Spindloe, C. and Steinke, S. and Streeter, M.
J. V. and Thomas, A. G. R. and Underwood, C. and Wu, W. and
Zepf, M. and Rose, S. J. and Mangles, S. P. D.},
title = {{B}ounding elastic photon-photon scattering at
$\sqrt{s}≈$ 1 {M}e{V} using a laser-plasma platform},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-00404, arXiv:2407.12915},
year = {2025},
note = {6 pages, 10 figures},
abstract = {We report on a direct search for elastic photon-photon
scattering using x-ray and 𝛾 photons from a laser-plasma
based experiment. A 𝛾 photon beam produced by a laser
wakfield accelerator provided a broadband 𝛾 spectrum
extending to above 𝐸𝛾 = 200 MeV. These were collided
with a dense x-ray field produced by the emission from a
laser heated germanium foil at 𝐸𝑥 ≈ 1.4 keV,
corresponding to an invariant mass of √𝑠 = 1.22 ± 0.22
MeV. In these asymmetric collisions elastic scattering
removes one x-ray and one high-energy 𝛾 photon and
outputs two lower energy 𝛾 photons. No changes in the
𝛾 photon spectrum were observed as a result of the
collisions allowing us to place a $95\%$ upper bound on the
cross section of 1.5 × 1015 μb. Although far from the QED
prediction, this represents the lowest upper limit obtained
so far for √𝑠 ≲ 1 MeV.},
cin = {D3 / MPA},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)D3-20120731 / I:(DE-H253)MPA-20200816},
pnm = {621 - Accelerator Research and Development (POF4-621) /
TeX-MEx - Time resolved X-ray probing of Matter under
Extreme conditions (682399)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-621 / G:(EU-Grant)682399},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)FLASHForward-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25},
eprint = {2407.12915},
howpublished = {arXiv:2407.12915},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2407.12915;\%\%$},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/622591},
}