Journal of High Energy Physics (Jul 2022)

Search for axion(-like) particles in heavy-ion collisions

  • Yi Yang,
  • Cheng-Wei Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2022)082
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2022, no. 7
pp. 1 – 12

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Abstract We propose a novel way to search for axion(-like) particles in heavy-ion collisions using prompt photons as the probe and the property of conversion between photon and axion(-like) particles under a strong magnetic field generated in the non-central collisions. The expected result reveals that a new phase space region of the coupling constant for photon and axion(-like) particles can be covered in the future high energy nuclear colliders.

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