Sikivie developed a method of detecting these particles using a resonant cavity, taking advantage of the fact that it decays into one real and one virtual photon.
Sikivie developed a method of detecting these particles using a resonant cavity, taking advantage of the fact that it decays into one real and one virtual photon. The "misalignment mechanism" is one method of producing these particles in the early universe, in which they take on a random mass before inflation fixes their mass. Two "invisible" forms of this particle can be distinguished by looking at the ratio of their electromagnetic and color anomalies, which is eight-thirds in the DFSZ model and 0 in the KSVZ model. One method of creating these particles involves firing a laser through a five tesla dipole magnet, called the "shining light through walls" method. In stars, this particle may be produced by a pair of photons interacting with an atomic nucleus via the (*) Primakoff effect. The ADMX experiment attempts to find this particle in the dark matter halo of the Milky Way, and the existence of this particle is posited to explain the low value of the theta parameter in the QCD Lagrangian. For 10 points, name these hypothetical particles that were posited by Peccei and Quinn to solve the strong-CP problem.
Sikivie developed a method of detecting these particles using a resonant cavity, taking advantage of the fact that it decays into one real and one virtual photon.
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