Sensitivity to Axion-like Particles with a Three-Beam Stimulated Resonant Photon Collider around the eV Mass Range

Abstract

We propose a three-beam stimulated resonant photon collider with focused laser fields in order to directly produce an axion-like particle (ALP) with the two beams and to stimulate its decay by the remaining one. The expected sensitivity around the eV mass range has been evaluated. The result shows that the sensitivity can reach the ALP-photon coupling down to O(10−14) GeV−1 with 1 J class short-pulsed lasers.

Keywords

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