The Low-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics
2010; Annual Reviews; Volume: 60; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1146/annurev.nucl.012809.104433
ISSN1545-4134
AutoresJoerg Jaeckel, Andreas Ringwald,
Tópico(s)Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
ResumoMost embeddings of the Standard Model into a more unified theory, in particular the ones based on supergravity or superstrings, predict the existence of a hidden sector of particles which have only very weak interactions with the visible sector Standard Model particles. Some of these exotic particle candidates (such as e.g. "axions", "axion-like particles" and "hidden U(1) gauge bosons") may be very light, with masses in the sub-eV range, and have very weak interactions with photons. Correspondingly, these very weakly interacting sub-eV particles (WISPs) may lead to observable effects in experiments (as well as in astrophysical and cosmological observations) searching for light shining through a wall, for changes in laser polarisation, for non-linear processes in large electromagnetic fields and for deviations from Coulomb's law. We present the physics case and a status report of this emerging low-energy frontier of fundamental physics.
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