Yuri Kirita, Airi Kodama, Kensuke Homma, Catalin Chiochiu, Mihai Cuciuc, Georgiana Giubega, Takumi Hasada, Masaki Hashida, ShinIchiro Masuno, Yoshihide Nakamiya, Liviu Neagu, Vanessa Rozelle Maria Rodrigues, Madalin-Mihai Rosu, Shuji Sakabe, Stefan Victor Tazlauanu, Ovidiu Tesileanu, Shigeki Tokita
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Abstract
Axion-like particles (ALPs) have been searched for with a quasi-parallel
stimulated resonant photon-photon collider sensitive to the sub-eV mass range
by focusing two-color near-infrared pulse lasers into a vacuum. In this work,
we have developed a specialized coronagraphy to mitigate the dominant
background photons from optical elements by introducing an eclipse filter. The
observed number of signal-like photons was found to be consistent with residual
background photons from optical elements through an additional test by
degrading the focal point overlapping factor between the two lasers. We then
extended the exclusion region in the relation between ALP-photon coupling,
$g/M$, and the ALP mass $m$, reaching the most sensitive point $g/M =
4.2\times10^{-7}\,\mathrm{GeV^{-1}}$ at $m = 0.15\,\mathrm{eV}$ for
pseudoscalar ALPs.