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The new axion helioscope at CERN started acquiring data during September of 2002: CAST (Cern Axion Solar Telescope) employs a decommissioned LHC dipole magnet to convert putative solar axions or axion-like particles into detectable photons.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 J. I. Collar

A search for solar axions has been performed using an axion helioscope which is equipped with a 2.3m-long 4T superconducting magnet, PIN-photodiode X-ray detectors, and a telescope mount mechanism to track the sun. In addition, a gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Inoue , T. Namba , S. Moriyama , M. Minowa , Y. Takasu , T. Horiuchi , A. Yamamoto

We present results from the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) and the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX), together with a brief review on prospects on Axion searches with a variety of experimental techniques. CAST has explored masses up to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 T. Geralis

We study the feasibility of a new generation axion helioscope, the most ambitious and promising detector of solar axions to date. We show that large improvements in magnetic field volume, x-ray focusing optics and detector backgrounds are…

Almost 35 years since their suggestion as a good solution to the strong CP-problem, axions remain one of the few viable candidates for the Dark Matter, although still eluding detection. Most of the methods for their detection are based on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Dafni , F. J. Iguaz

The Cern Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is in operation and taking data since 2003. The main objective of the CAST experiment is to search for a hypothetical pseudoscalar boson, the axion, which might be produced in the core of the sun. The…

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) searches for axions coming from photon to axion conversion in the sun's core, as stated by the Primakoff effect. Axions arise in particle physics as a consequence of the breaking of Peccei-Quinn…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 C. Eleftheriadis et al

A search for solar axions has been performed using an axion helioscope which is equipped with a 2.3m x 4T superconducting magnet, a gas container to hold dispersion-matching gas, PIN-photodiode X-ray detectors, and a telescope mount…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-03 Y. Inoue , Y. Akimoto , R. Ohta , T. Mizumoto , A. Yamamoto , M. Minowa

Axions are well motivated particles proposed in an extension of the SM as a solution to the strong CP problem. Also, there is the category of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) which appear in extensions of the SM and share the same phenomenology…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-09 Juan Antonio García

We have searched for solar axions with a detector which consists of a 4T x 2.3m superconducting magnet, PIN-photodiode X-ray detectors, and an altazimuth mount to track the sun. The conversion region is filled with cold helium gas which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 Y. Inoue , M. Minowa , Y. Akimoto , R. Ota , T. Mizumoto , A. Yamamoto

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) experiment searches for axions from the Sun converted into photons with energies up to around 10 keV via the inverse Primakoff effect in the high magnetic field of a superconducting Large Hadron…

We present prospects of two experiments using the Tokyo Axion Helioscope. One is a search for solar axions. In the past measurements, axion mass from 0 to 0.27 eV and from 0.84 to 1.00 eV have been scanned and no positive evidence was seen.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-04 R. Ohta , M. Minowa , Y. Inoue , Y. Akimoto , T. Mizumoto , A. Yamamoto

The CAST experiment at CERN (European Organization of Nuclear Research) searches for axions from the sun. The axion is a pseudoscalar particle that was motivated by theory thirty years ago, with the intention to solve the strong CP problem.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Kuster , S. Cebrian , A. Rodriquez , R. Kotthaus , H. Braeuninger , J. Franz , P. Friedrich , R. Hartmann , D. Kang , G. Lutz , L. Strueder