Recently some of the authors proposed a search for galactic axions with mass about 0.2~μeV using a large volume resonant cavity, tens of cubic meters, cooled down to 4~K and immersed in a magnetic field of about 0.6~T generated inside the superconducting magnet of the KLOE experiment located at the National Laboratory of Frascati of INFN. This experiment, called KLASH (KLoe magnet for Axion SearcH), has a potential sensitivity on the axion-to-photon coupling, gaγγ, of about 6×10−17\mboxGeV−1, reaching the region predicted by KSVZ\cite{KSVZ} and DFSZ\cite{DFSZ} models of QCD axions. We report here the status of the project.
@article{arxiv.1811.06754,
title = {The Klash Proposal: Status and Perspectives},
author = {C. Gatti and D. Alesini and D. Babusci and C. Braggio and G. Carugno and N. Crescini and D. Di Gioacchino and P. Falferi and G. Lamanna and C. Ligi and A. Ortolan and L. Pellegrino and A. Rettaroli and G. Ruoso and S. Tocci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.06754},
year = {2018}
}
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Contributed to the 14th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, DESY in Hamburg, June 18 to 22, 2018