Solar axion search with the CAST experiment
Abstract
The CAST (CERN Axion Solar Telescope) experiment is searching for solar axions by their conversion into photons inside the magnet pipe of an LHC dipole. The analysis of the data recorded during the first phase of the experiment with vacuum in the magnet pipes has resulted in the most restrictive experimental limit on the coupling constant of axions to photons. In the second phase, CAST is operating with a buffer gas inside the magnet pipes in order to extent the sensitivity of the experiment to higher axion masses. We will present the first results on the data taking as well as the system upgrades that have been operated in the last year in order to adapt the experiment for the data taking. Expected sensitivities on the coupling constant of axions to photons will be given for the recent run just started in March 2008.
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@article{arxiv.0810.1874,
title = {Solar axion search with the CAST experiment},
author = {CAST Collaboration and E. Arik and S. Aune and D. Autiero and K. Barth and A. Belov and B. Beltrán and S. Borghi and F. S. Boydag and H. Bräuninger and G. Cantatore and J. M. Carmona and S. A. Cetin and J. I. Collar and T. Dafni and M. Davenport and L. Di Lella and O. B. Dogan and C. Eleftheriadis and N. Elias and G. Fanourakis and E. Ferrer-Ribas and H. Fischer and J. Franz and J. Galán and E. Gazis and T. Geralis and I. Giomataris and S. Gninenko and H. Gómez and M. Hasinoff and F. H. Heinsius and I. Hikmet and D. H. H. Hoffmann and I. G. Irastorza and J. Jacoby and K. Jakovčić and D. Kang and T. Karageorgopoulou and M. Karuza and K. Königsmann and R. Kotthaus and M. Krčmar and K. Kousouris and M. Kuster and B. Lakić and C. Lasseur and A. Liolios and A. Ljubičić and V. Lozza and G. Lutz and G. Luzón and D. Miller and J. Morales and T. Niinikoski and A. Nordt and A. Ortiz and T. Papaevangelou and M. J. Pivovaroff and A. Placci and G. Raiteri and G. Raffelt and H. Riege and A. Rodríguez and J. Ruz and I. Savvidis and Y. Semertzidis and P. Serpico and S. K. Solanki and R. Soufli and L. Stewart and M. Tsagri and K. van Bibber and J5D. Villar and J. Vogel and L. Walckiers and K. Zioutas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1874},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Proceedings of the ICHEP 2008 conference