The Tokyo Axion Helioscope
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2012-01-24 v1
Abstract
The Tokyo Axion Helioscope experiment aims to detect axions which are produced in the solar core. The helioscope uses a strong magnetic field in order to convert axions into X-ray photons and has a mounting to follow the sun very accurately. The photons are detected by an X-ray detector which is made of 16 PIN-photodiodes. In addition, a gas container and a gas regulation system is adopted for recovering the coherence between axions and photons in the conversion region giving sensitivity to axions with masses up to 2 eV. In this paper, we report on the technical detail of the Tokyo Axion Helioscope.
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@article{arxiv.1201.4622,
title = {The Tokyo Axion Helioscope},
author = {R. Ohta and Y. Akimoto and Y. Inoue and M. Minowa and T. Mizumoto and S. Moriyama and T. Namba and Y. Takasu and A. Yamamoto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.4622},
year = {2012}
}