Interferometry in pulsed fields

Abstract

We discuss the particle-physics discovery potential of ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers. With the use of pulsed magnetic fields, current and future gravitational-wave interferometers could not only be utilized to observe phenomena of strong-field QED, but they could also be applied to sweep the parameter space of particles of the hidden sector.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to 5th Patras workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, IPPP Durham, 13-17 July 2009