The International Axion Observatory (IAXO)

The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a new generation axion helioscope aiming at a sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling of a few 10$^{12}$ GeV$^{-1}$, i.e. 1 - 1.5 orders of magnitude beyond the one currently achieved by CAST. The project relies on improvements in magnetic field volume...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Irastorza, I.G., Avignone, F.T., Cantatore, G., Caspi, S., Carmona, J.M., Dafni, T., Davenport, M., Dudarev, A., Fanourakis, G., Ferrer-Ribas, E., Galan, J., Garcia, J.A., Geralis, T., Giomataris, I., Gninenko, S., Gomez, H., Hoffmann, D.H.H., Iguaz, F.J., Jakovcic, K., Krcmar, M., Lakic, B., Luzon, G., Lindner, A., Pivovaroff, M., Papaevangelou, T., Raffelt, G., Redondo, J., Rodriguez, A., Russenschuck, S., Ruz, J., Shilon, I., Ten Kate, H., Tomas, A., Troitsky, S., van Bibber, K., Villar, J.A., Vogel, J., Walckiers, L., Zioutas, K.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2012
Materias:
Particle Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.3204/DESY-PROC-2011-04/irastorza_igor
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1417740
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Sumario:The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a new generation axion helioscope aiming at a sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling of a few 10$^{12}$ GeV$^{-1}$, i.e. 1 - 1.5 orders of magnitude beyond the one currently achieved by CAST. The project relies on improvements in magnetic field volume together with extensive use of x-ray focusing optics and low background detectors, innovations already successfully tested in CAST. Additional physics cases of IAXO could include the detection of electron-coupled axions invoked to solve the white dwarfs anomaly, relic axions, and a large variety of more generic axion-like particles (ALPs) and other novel excitations at the low-energy frontier of elementary particle physics. This contribution is a summary of our paper [1] to which we refer for further details.

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