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Improved search for solar chameleons with a GridPix detector at CAST

  • V. Anastassopoulos
  • , S. Aune
  • , K. Barth
  • , A. Belov
  • , H. Bräuninger
  • , G. Cantatore
  • , J. M. Carmona
  • , J. F. Castel
  • , S. A. Cetin
  • , F. Christensen
  • , T. Dafni
  • , M. Davenport
  • , A. Dermenev
  • , K. Desch
  • , B. Döbrich
  • , C. Eleftheriadis
  • , G. Fanourakis
  • , E. Ferrer-Ribas
  • , H. Fischer
  • , W. Funk
  • J. A. García, A. Gardikiotis, J. G. Garza, E. N. Gazis, T. Geralis, I. Giomataris, S. Gninenko, C. J. Hailey, M. D. Hasinoff, D. H.H. Hoffmann, F. J. Iguaz, I. G. Irastorza, A. Jakobsen, J. Jacoby, K. Jakovčić, J. Kaminski, M. Karuza, S. Kostoglou, N. Kralj, M. Krčmar, C. Krieger, B. Lakić, J. M. Laurent, A. Liolios, A. Ljubičić, G. Luzón, M. Maroudas, L. Miceli, S. Neff, I. Ortega, T. Papaevangelou, K. Paraschou, M. J. Pivovaroff, G. Raffelt, M. Rosu, J. Ruz, E. Ruiz Chóliz, I. Savvidis, S. Schmidt, Y. K. Semertzidis, S. K. Solanki, L. Stewart, T. Vafeiadis, J. K. Vogel, M. Vretenar, W. Wuensch, S. C. Yildiz, K. Zioutas, P. Brax
  • University of Patras
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • CERN
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Trieste
  • University of Zaragoza
  • Istanbul Bilgi University
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • University of Bonn
  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research
  • University of Freiburg
  • CAS - Institute of High Energy Physics
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Columbia University
  • University of British Columbia
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Ruder Boskovic Institute
  • University of Rijeka
  • Yale University
  • University of Hamburg
  • Institute for Basic Science
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • Chem./Materials Science Directorate
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
  • Kyung Hee University
  • University of California at Irvine
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives

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Abstract

We report on a new search for solar chameleons with the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST). A GridPix detector was used to search for soft X-ray photons in the energy range from 200 eV to 10 keV from converted solar chameleons. No significant excess over the expected background has been observed in the data taken in 2014 and 2015. We set an improved limit on the chameleon photon coupling, β γ ∼#5.7×10 10 for 1<β m <10 6 at 95% C.L. Improving our previous results by a factor two and for the first time reaching sensitivity below the solar luminosity bound for tachocline magnetic fields up to 12.5 T.

Original languageEnglish
Article number032
JournalJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume2019
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Jan 2019

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