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CAST constraints on the axion-electron coupling

  • In non-hadronic axion models, which have a tree-level axion-electron interaction, the Sun produces a strong axion flux by bremsstrahlung, Compton scattering, and axiorecombination, the "BCA processes." Based on a new calculation of this flux, including for the first time axio-recombination, we derive limits on the axion-electron Yukawa coupling gae and axion-photon interaction strength ga using the CAST phase-I data (vacuum phase). For ma <~ 10 meV/c2 we find ga gae < 8.1 × 10−23 GeV−1 at 95% CL. We stress that a next-generation axion helioscope such as the proposed IAXO could push this sensitivity into a range beyond stellar energy-loss limits and test the hypothesis that white-dwarf cooling is dominated by axion emission.

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Author:Klaus Barth, Alexander Belov, Berta Beltran, Heinrich Bräuninger, José Manuel Carmona, Juan I. Collar, Theopisti Dafni, Martyn Davenport, Luigi Di Lella, Christos EleftheriadisORCiD, Jakob Englhauser, George Fanourakis, Ester Ferrer-Ribas, Horst Fischer, Jürgen Franz, Peter Friedrich, Javier Galán, J. A. García, Theodoros Geralis, Ioanis Giomataris, Sergei Gninenko, Héctor Gómez, Michael D. Hasinoff, Fritz-Herbert HeinsiusORCiDGND, Dieter H. H. HoffmannORCiDGND, Igor Garcia Irastorza, Joachim JacobyGND, Kresimir Jakovčić, Donghwa KangORCiDGND, Kay Königsmann, Rainer Kotthaus, Konstantinos Kousouris, Milica Krčmar, M. Kuster, Biljana Lakić, Anastasios Liolios, Ante Ljubičić, Gerhard Lutz, Gloria Luzón, David W. Miller, Thomas Papaevangelou, Mike J. Pivovaroff, Georg Raffelt, Javier Redondo, Hans Riege, A. Rodríguez, Jaime Ruz, Ilias Savvidis, Yannis Semertzidis, Laura Stewart, Karl van Bibber, Joaquin D. Vieira, José A. Villar, Julia K. Vogel, Louis Walckiers, Konstantin Zioutas
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-259158
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/05/010
ISSN:1475-7516
ArXiv Id:http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6283
Parent Title (English):Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics
Publisher:IOP
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2013/05/09
Date of first Publication:2013/05/09
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2013/06/14
Tag:axions; dark matter experiments; solar physics; white and brown dwarfs
Volume:2013
Issue:5
Page Number:17
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HeBIS-PPN:347115691
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
PACS-Classification:10.00.00 THE PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS (for experimental methods and instrumentation for elementary-particle physics, see section 29) / 14.00.00 Properties of specific particles / 14.80.-j Other particles (including hypothetical) / 14.80.Mz Axions and other Nambu-Goldstone bosons (Majorons, familons, etc.)
90.00.00 GEOPHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, AND ASTROPHYSICS (for more detailed headings, see the Geophysics Appendix) / 97.00.00 Stars (for relativistic stars, see 04.40.Dg in general relativity and gravitation) / 97.10.-q Stellar characteristics and properties (see also section 26 Nuclear astrophysics) / 97.10.Ld Magnetic and electric fields; polarization of starlight
90.00.00 GEOPHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, AND ASTROPHYSICS (for more detailed headings, see the Geophysics Appendix) / 97.00.00 Stars (for relativistic stars, see 04.40.Dg in general relativity and gravitation) / 97.10.-q Stellar characteristics and properties (see also section 26 Nuclear astrophysics) / 97.10.Me Mass loss and stellar winds
90.00.00 GEOPHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, AND ASTROPHYSICS (for more detailed headings, see the Geophysics Appendix) / 97.00.00 Stars (for relativistic stars, see 04.40.Dg in general relativity and gravitation) / 97.20.-w Normal stars (by class): general or individual / 97.20.Rp Faint blue stars (including blue stragglers), white dwarfs, degenerate stars, nuclei of planetary nebulae (for planetary nebulae, see 98.38.Ly or 98.58.Li)
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
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