New ALPS Results on Hidden-Sector Lightweights

8 Apr 2010 · Klaus Ehret, Maik Frede, Samvel Ghazaryan, Matthias Hildebrandt, Ernst-Axel Knabbe, Dietmar Kracht, Axel Lindner, Jenny List, Tobias Meier, Niels Meyer, Dieter Notz, Javier Redondo, Andreas Ringwald, Günter Wiedemann, Benno Willke ·

The ALPS collaboration runs a "Light Shining through a Wall" (LSW) experiment to search for photon oscillations into "Weakly Interacting Sub-eV Particles" (WISPs) often predicted by extensions of the Standard Model. The experiment is set up around a superconducting HERA dipole magnet at the site of DESY. Due to several upgrades of the experiment we are able to place limits on the probability of photon-WISP-photon conversions of a few 10^{-25}. These limits result in today's most stringent laboratory constraints on the existence of low mass axion-like particles, hidden photons and minicharged particles.

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