Speaker
Joscha Heinze
(University)
Description
We present the design, status and first results of a detector to search for axions and axion-like particles in the galactic halo using laser interferometry enhanced via squeezed states of light. The detector is sensitive to the polarisation rotation of linearly polarised light induced by an axion field in the mass range from 10^−16 eV up to 10^−8 eV, and is likely to significantly surpass the CAST limit. Our experiment has the potential to be further scaled up to a multi-kilometre long detector, and to then set constraints of the axion-photon coupling coefficient of ∼10^−18 /GeV for axion masses of 10^−16 eV, or detect a signal.
Authors
Joscha Heinze
(University)
Dr
Artemiy Dmitriev
(University of Birmingham)
Mr
Alex Gill
(University of Birmingham)
Dr
Jiri Smetana
(University of Birmingham)
Dr
Tianglang Yan
(University of Birmingham)
Dr
Vincent Boyer
(University of Birmingham)
Dr
Denis Martynov
(University of Birmingham)
