Coherent Conversion of Very Light Pseudoscalar Bosons

25 May 1981

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 46 (21) , 1361-1364
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.46.1361

Abstract

We discuss coherent conversion of hypothetical very light pseudoscalar bosons into a photon in the Coulomb and vector meson fields of a nucleus. The process provides a way to look for such bosons independently of whether their mass and lifetime allow for detection of the two-photon decay.

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