Title: Probing New Physics at the LUXE Experiment

Speaker: Dr. Arka Santra, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Abstract: The proposed Laser Und XFEL (LUXE) Experiment at DESY, Hamburg, aims to probe QED in the strong field non-perturbative regime. This regime will be created in collisions between high-intensity laser pulses and high-energy electron or photon beams from the Eu.XFEL setup. Brief details on building the LUXE silicon tracker detector will be presented. Moreover, this experiment offers a unique opportunity to probe physics beyond the standard model. With the help of the large photon flux generated at LUXE, axion-like particles can be probed up to a mass of 350 MeV and with a photon coupling of 3 × 10^{-6} GeV^{-1}. This reach in parameter space is comparable to the projected reach of future experiments like FASER2 in the HL-LHC and NA62 in the dump mode.