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arxiv: 2512.14110 · v3 · pith:SSKOMJTRnew · submitted 2025-12-16 · ✦ hep-ex · astro-ph.GA· hep-ph

Any Light Particle Searches with ALPS II: first science results

Daniel C. Brotherton , Zachary R. Bush , Sandy Croatto , Mauricio Diaz-Ortiz Jr. , Jacob Egge , Aldo Ejlli , Henry Fr\"adrich , Joe Gleason
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Hartmut Grote Ayman Hallal Michael T. Hartman Harold Hollis Katharina-Sophie Isleif Alasdair L. James Friederike Januschek Kanioar Karan Sven Karstensen Todd Kozlowski Axel Lindner Giuseppe Messineo Manuel Meyer Guido M\"uller Ryan Netrval Isabella Oceano Gulden Othman Jan H. P\~old David Reuther Andreas Ringwald Elmeri Rivasto Jos\'e Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno J\"orn Schaffran Uwe Schneekloth Christina Schwemmbauer Richard C.G. Smith Aaron D. Spector David B. Tanner Dieter Trines Li-Wei Wei Benno Willke Rachel Wolf
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The light-shining-through-a-wall experiment ALPS II at DESY in Hamburg searched for axions and similar lightweight particles in its first science campaign from February to May 2024. No evidence for the existence of such particles was found. For pseudoscalar bosons like the axion, with masses below about 0.1 meV, we achieved a limit for the di-photon coupling strength of 1.5e-9 1/GeV at a 95% confidence level. This is more than a factor of 20 improvement compared to all previous similar experiments. We also provide limits on photon interactions for scalar, vector and tensor bosons. An achievement of this first science campaign is the demonstration of stable operation and robust calibration of the complex experiment. Currently, the optical system of ALPS II is being upgraded aiming for another two orders of magnitude sensitivity increase.

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