{
  "id": "0711.4991",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2007-11-30T17:52:19.000Z",
  "updated": "2007-11-30T17:52:19.000Z",
  "title": "Laser experiments explore the hidden sector",
  "authors": [
    "M. Ahlers",
    "H. Gies",
    "J. Jaeckel",
    "J. Redondo",
    "A. Ringwald"
  ],
  "comment": "16 pages, 4 figures",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.D77:095001,2008",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.77.095001",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Recently, the laser experiments BMV and GammeV, searching for light shining through walls, have published data and calculated new limits on the allowed masses and couplings for axion-like particles. In this note we point out that these experiments can serve to constrain a much wider variety of hidden-sector particles such as, e.g., minicharged particles and hidden-sector photons. The new experiments improve the existing bounds from the older BFRT experiment by a factor of two. Moreover, we use the new PVLAS constraints on a possible rotation and ellipticity of light after it has passed through a strong magnetic field to constrain pure minicharged particle models. For masses <~0.05 eV, the charge is now restricted to be less than (3-4)x10^(-7) times the electron electric charge. This is the best laboratory bound and comparable to bounds inferred from the energy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2007-11-30T17:52:19.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "12.20.Fv",
      "14.80.-j"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "hidden sector",
      "constrain pure minicharged particle models",
      "best laboratory bound",
      "older bfrt experiment",
      "electron electric charge"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review D",
      "year": 2008,
      "month": "May",
      "volume": 77,
      "number": 9,
      "pages": "095001"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 16,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 769162,
      "adsabs": "2008PhRvD..77i5001A"
    }
  }
}