Design and Construction of a Variable-Angle Three-Beam Stimulated Resonant Photon Collider toward eV-Scale ALP Search

Abstract

We aim to search for axion-like particles in the eV mass range using a variable-angle stimulated resonance photon collider (SRPC) with three intense laser beams. By changing angle of incidence of the three beams, the center-of-mass-system collision energy can be varied and the eV mass range can be continuously searched for. In this paper, we present the design and construction of such a variable-angle three-beam SRPC (tSRPC), the verification of the variable-angle mechanism using a calibration laser, and realistic sensitivity projections for searches in the near future.

Keywords

• dark matter
• axion
• axion-like particle
• ALP
• inflaton
• laser