In situ axion generation and detection in laser-plasma wakefield interaction

2025/04/16 by Xiangyan An, An, Xiangyan, Min Chen +10 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) #Quantum optics and atomic interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.12500

openalex publication_date 2025/04/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02

Abstract

We propose a laser-plasma wakefield interaction based scheme for in situ axion generation and detection through the Primakoff process. Strong electromagnetic fields (\gtrsim 10¹¹ V/m) in the wakefield can enhance axion production rates by 2 orders of magnitude compared to conventional light-shining-through-a-wall experiments. By replacing the axion generation stage with laser-wakefield interaction, the axion-photon coupling constraints can achieve the level of \gagg ∼ 10^-10 GeV^-1 for axion mass less than 0.1 meV. Besides, the generated axions can convert back into photons in the background fields, leading to axion-regenerated electromagnetic fields (AREM) with unique polarization, frequency, and transverse modes. This provides a new promising way to search axions by detecting the filtered AREM fields from the background laser and plasma fields.

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