Conveners
Session 1
- Konstantin Zioutas (University of Patras , PATRAS GREECE)
ALPS II is a light-shining-through-a-wall experiment at DESY Hamburg searching for axion-like particles aiming at a sensitivity of $g_{a \gamma \gamma} \approx 2\times 10^{-11}\,\textrm{GeV}^{-1}$ with the use of long magnet strings and resonant optical cavities. The experiment is being commissioned at present: two $120\,\textrm{m}$ long straightened superconducting dipole magnet strings have...
Gravitational wave detectors are extremely sensitive to the differential arm length changes and they can be used for measuring the small displacement of the test masses due to the ultralight vector dark matter (DM). However, especially for the mirrors made of the same material, the effects of the vector DM to the different mirrors are mostly common and the sensitivity is largely attenuated. In...
