Theoretical expectations and experimental prospects for solar axions searches with crystal detectors
Abstract
A calculation of the expected signal due to Primakov coherent conversion of solar axions into photons via Bragg scattering in several solid--state detectors is presented and compared with present and future experimental sensitivities. The axion window m_a>~0.03 eV (not accessible at present by other techniques) could be explored in the foreseeable future with crystal detectors to constrain the axion--photon coupling constant below the latest bounds coming from helioseismology. On the contrary a positive signal in the sensitivity region of such devices would imply revisiting other more stringent astrophysical limits derived for the same range of the axion mass.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9810308,
title = {Theoretical expectations and experimental prospects for solar axions searches with crystal detectors},
author = {S. Scopel and I. G. Irastorza and S. Cebrian and E. Garcia and D. Gonzalez and A. Morales and J. Morales and A. Ortiz de Solorzano and J. Puimedon and A. Salinas and M. L. Sarsa and J. A. Villar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9810308},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 figure, To be published in the proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter (IDM98), Buxton, England, 7-11 September 1998