5–10 Sept 2021
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Probing new physics at the LUXE experiment

8 Sept 2021, 15:28
18m
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Talk Dark matter and cosmology Dark matter and cosmology

Speaker

Arka Santra (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Description

The proposed LUXE experiment (LASER Und XFEL Experiment) at DESY, Hamburg, using the electron beam from the European XFEL, aims to probe QED in the non-perturbative regime created in collisions between high-intensity laser pulses and high-energy electron or photon beams. This setup also provides a unique opportunity to probe physics beyond the standard model. In this talk we show that by leveraging the large photon flux generated at LUXE, one can probe axion-like-particles (ALPs) up to a mass of 350 MeV and with photon coupling of 3x10^{-6} GeV^{-1}. This reach is comparable to FASER2 and NA62. In addition, we will discuss other probes of new physics such as ALPs-electron coupling.

Primary author

Arka Santra (Weizmann Institute of Science)

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