Pith. sign in

REVIEW 2 cited by

Reconciling the CAST and PVLAS Results

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv hep-ph/0610068 v2 pith:I73YOOE5 submitted 2006-10-05 hep-ph

classification hep-ph
keywords resultscastexistenceexperimentparticlephotonspvlastheory
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal
0 comments
read the original abstract

The PVLAS experiment has recently claimed evidence for an axion-like particle in the milli-electron-Volt mass range with a coupling to two photons that appears to be in contradiction with the negative results of the CAST experiment searching for solar axions. The simple axion interpretation of these two experimental results is therefore untenable and it has posed a challenge for theory. We propose a possible way to reconcile these two results by postulating the existence of an ultralight pseudo-scalar particle interacting with two photons and a scalar boson and the existence of a low scale phase transition in the theory.

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 2 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. A Bandpass Axion Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Stars And Love The Lab

    hep-ph 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 7.0 of 10

    Axion-photon coupling from non-anomalous PQ symmetry with charged light fermions acts as bandpass filter, making lab constraints dominant for most axion masses.

  2. Boomerang mechanism explaining the excess radio background

    hep-ph 2025-09 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A two-stage mechanism where relic neutrinos convert to dark neutrinos in the early universe and later decay into photon states can explain the ARCADE 2 excess radio background while evading neutrino magnetic moment bounds.

Pith tools