Towards a medium-scale axion helioscope and haloscope
Abstract
We discuss the physics case for and the concept of a medium-scale axion helioscope with sensitivities in the axion-photon coupling a few times better than CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST). Search for an axion-like particle with these couplings is motivated by several persistent astrophysical anomalies. We present early conceptual design, existing infrastructure, projected sensitivity and timeline of such a helioscope (Troitsk Axion Solar Telescope Experiment, TASTE) to be constructed in the Institute for Nuclear Research, Troitsk, Russia. The proposed instrument may be also used for the search of dark-matter halo axions.
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@article{arxiv.1706.09378,
title = {Towards a medium-scale axion helioscope and haloscope},
author = {V. Anastassopoulos and F. Avignone and A. Bykov and G. Cantatore and S. A. Cetin and A. Derbin and I. Drachnev and R. Djilkibaev and V. Eremin and H. Fischer and A. Gangapshev and A. Gardikiotis and S. Gninenko and N. Golubev and D. H. H. Hoffmann and M. Karuza and L. Kravchuk and M. Libanov and A. Lutovinov and M. Maroudas and V. Matveev and S. Molkov and V. Muratova and V. Pantuev and M. Pavlinsky and K. Ptitsyna and G. Rubtsov and D. Semenov and P. Sikivie and A. Spiridonov and P. Tinyakov and I. Tkachev and S. Troitsky and E. Unzhakov and K. Zioutas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09378},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
38 pages, 15 figures, JINST style. V2: misprints corrected. V3: minor clarifications and detalizations, version accepted by JINST