Design and construction of a variable-angle three-beam stimulated resonant photon collider toward eV-scale ALP search

Abstract

We aim at search for axion-like particles in the eV mass range using a variable-angle stimulated resonance photon collider (SRPC) with three intense laser beams. By changing angle of incidence of the three beams, the center-of-mass-system collision energy can be varied and the eV mass range can be continuously searched for. In this paper, we present the design and construction of such a variable-angle three-beam SRPC ($\mathrm{^tSRPC}$), the verification of the variable-angle mechanism using a calibration laser, and realistic sensitivity projections for the near future searches.