High Energy Physics Seminars

Probing New Physics at the LUXE Experiment

by Dr. Arka Santra (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

Thursday, February 29, 2024 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at AG-66
Description
The proposed Laser Und XFEL (LUXE) Experiment at DESY, Hamburg, aims to probe quantum electrodynamics in the strong field nonperturbative regime. This regime will be created by collisions between high-intensity laser pulses and high-energy electron or photon beams from the EuXFEL setup. Brief details on building the LUXE silicon tracker detector will be presented. Moreover, this experiment offers a unique opportunity to probe physics beyond the standard model. Axion-like particles can be probed up to 350 MeV in mass and 3×10−6 GeV−1 in photon coupling power thanks to LUXE’s large photon flux. This reach in parameter space is comparable to the projected reach of future experiments like FASER2 in the HL-LHC and NA62 in the dump mode.