Search for solar axions: CAST
- The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is searching for axions produced in the Sun's core by the Primakoff process. CAST is using a decommissioned Large Hadron Collider (LHC) test magnet where axions could be converted back into X-rays with energies up to 10 keV. Analysis of the 2003 data showed no signal above background implying an upper limit for the axion-photon coupling constant gagg < 1.16 X 10 ^-10 GeV exp -1 at 95% C.L. for ma . 0.02 eV [1]. The higher quality 2004 data is presently under analysis. CAST Phase II is scheduled to start in late 2005. This will be the first step in extending CAST's sensitivity to axion rest masses up to ~ 1 eV.
Author: | Biljana Lakić, u.a false |
---|---|
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-45326 |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2007/06/14 |
Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2007/06/14 |
Source: | Proceedings of Science (HEP2005)022. - International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, July 21st - 27th 2005, Lisboa, Portugal |
HeBIS-PPN: | 18884466X |
Institutes: | Physik / Physik |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |