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We study the impact of virtual axions on the polarization of photons inside a cavity during the interaction of high-power laser pulses. A novel detection scheme for measuring the axion-induced ellipticity signal during the Light-by-Light (LBL) scattering process is investigated. We show that a momentum exchange between photons in a probe laser beam and a high-intensity target beam may lead to a resonance at the physical mass of the axion. Consequently, the resonant enhancement of vacuum birefringence gives rise to a large ellipticity signal. This signal enhancement can be applied in order to discriminate between the axion contribution to LBL scattering and the standard model contribution due to electron-positron pairs. The sensitivity of the scheme is studied for experimentally feasible probe light sources and ultrahigh intensity laser backgrounds. It is shown that this technique has the potential to probe the QCD axion in the mass range $10^{-2} textrm{eV} lesssim m_{a} lesssim 1 textrm{eV}$. In this region the axion induced signal surpasses the standard model background.
We discuss the energy scales of the explicit breaking terms of the global symmetries USW~ needed for the quinessential axion (QA) and the ultra-light axion (ULA). The appropriate scale of QA is about $10^{8}$ GeV.
A new cosmological scenario is proposed in which a light scalaron of $f (R)$ gravity plays the role of dark matter. In this scenario, the scalaron initially resides at the minimum of its effective potential while the electroweak symmetry is unbroken.
In this third paper of a series dedicated to a dispersive treatment of the hadronic light-by-light (HLbL) tensor, we derive a partial-wave formulation for two-pion intermediate states in the HLbL contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the m
We describe and present the first observational evidence that light propagating near a rotating black hole is twisted in phase and carries orbital angular momentum. The novel use of this physical observable as an additional tool for the previously kn
We summarize our recent new evaluation of the pion-exchange contribution to hadronic light-by-light scattering in the muon g-2. We first derive a new short-distance constraint on the off-shell pion-photon-photon form factor at the external vertex in