Solar Hidden Photon Search
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2011-11-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
The Solar Hidden Photon Search (SHIPS) is a joint astroparticle project of the Hamburger Sternwarte and DESY. The main target is to detect the solar emission of a new species of particles, so called Hidden Photons (HPs). Due to kinetic mixing, photons and HPs can convert into each other as they propagate. A small number of solar HPs - originating from photon to HP oscillations in the interior of the Sun - can be converted into photons in a long vacuum pipe pointing to the Sun - the SHIPS helioscope.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1111.5797,
title = {Solar Hidden Photon Search},
author = {Matthias Schwarz and Axel Lindner and Javier Redondo and Andreas Ringwald and Guenter Wiedemann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.5797},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, talk presented at the 7th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, 27 June - 1 July 2011, Mykonos, Greece