Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76: 622
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4483-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Mixing of photons with light pseudoscalars in time-dependent magnetic fields

Departmento de Física, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Casilla 307, Santiago, Chile

^* e-mail: jgamboa55@gmail.com

Received: 30 July 2016
Accepted: 3 November 2016
Published online: 15 November 2016

Abstract

The effects of an external time-dependent magnetic field in the conversion probability of photon- to axion-like particles are studied. Our findings show that for a certain time regime, the amplitude of the produced axion-like field can be enlarged with respect to the static case, thus enhancing the probability of conversion.