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Search for solar axions with the CAST experiment

  • Biljana Lakic
  • , E. Arik
  • , S. Aune
  • , D. Autiero
  • , K. Barth
  • , A. Belov
  • , B. Beltrán
  • , S. Borghi
  • , G. Bourlis
  • , F. S. Boydag
  • , H. Bräuninger
  • , J. M. Carmona
  • , S. Cebrián
  • , S. A. Cetin
  • , J. I. Collar
  • , T. Dafni
  • , M. Davenport
  • , L. Di Lella
  • , O. B. Dogan
  • , C. Eleftheriadis
  • N. Elias, G. Fanourakis, E. Ferrer-Ribas, H. Fischer, P. Friedrich, J. Franz, J. Galán, T. Geralis, I. Giomataris, S. Gninenko, H. Gómez, R. Hartmann, M. Hasinoff, F. H. Heinsius, I. Hikmet, D. H.H. Hoffmann, I. G. Irastorza, J. Jacoby, K. Jakovcic, D. Kang, K. Königsmann, R. Kotthaus, M. Krcmar, K. Kousouris, M. Kuster, C. Lasseur, A. Liolios, A. Ljubicic, G. Lutz, G. Luzón, D. Miller, J. Morales, T. Niinikoski, A. Nordt, A. Ortiz, T. Papaevangelou, M. J. Pivovaroff, A. Placci, G. Raffelt, H. Riege, A. Rodríguez, J. Ruz, I. Savvidis, Y. Semertzidis, P. Serpico, R. Soufli, L. Stewart, K. Van Bibber, J. Villar, J. Vogel, L. Walckiers, K. Zioutas
  • Ruder Boskovic Institute
  • Dogus University
  • Centre d' Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay (CEA-Saclay)
  • CERN
  • Institute de Physique Nucléaire
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Zaragoza
  • Queen's University Kingston
  • University of Glasgow
  • Hellenic Open University
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
  • The University of Chicago
  • Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of British Columbia
  • Ruhr University Bochum
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Chem./Materials Science Directorate
  • University of Patras
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Abstract

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is searching for axions produced by the Primakoff process in the solar core. CAST is using a dipole magnet where axions could be converted back into X-rays. Phase I data analysis resulted in the most restrictive experimental limit on the axion-photon coupling constant for ma ≲ 0.02 eV In CAST Phase II, the sensitivity is extended to higher axion masses. Results of the analysis of 2005 and 2006 data, covering the range ma ≲ 0.4 eV, will be presented. Currently CAST is searching for axions with masses up to 1.2 eV.

Original languageEnglish
JournalProceedings of Science
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
EventIdentification of Dark Matter 2008, IDM 2008 - Stockholm, Sweden
Duration: 18 Aug 200822 Aug 2008

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