High-Intensity Probes of Axion-Like Particles

Abstract

With continuously increasing intensities, modern laser systems can become a valuable tool for the search for axions and axion-like particles. As conventional setups of axion searches cannot easily accommodate the usage of a high-intensity laser system, we propose a novel, purely laser-based setup in which the occurrence of a frequency shift is an observable for the axion-photon interaction.

Comments: 4 pages, contribution to 6th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, Zurich University, Switzerland, 5-9 July 2010