The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST): status and prospects

The CAST experiment is being mounted at CERN. It will make use of a decommissioned LHC test magnet to look for solar axions through its conversion into photons inside the magnetic field. The magnet has a field of 9 Tesla and length of 10 m and is installed in a platform which allows to move it ~8 de...

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Autores principales: Irastorza, I.G., Andriamonje, S., Arik, E., Autiero, D., Avignone, F., Barth, K., Bingol, E., Brauninger, H., Brodzinski, R., Carmona, J., Chesi, E., Cebrian, S., Cetin, S., Collar, J., Creswick, R., Dafni, T., de Oliveira, R., Dedoussis, S., Delbart, A., di Lella, L., Eleftheriadis, C., Fanourakis, G., Farach, H., Fischer, H., Formenti, F., Geralis, T., Giomataris, I., Gninenko, S., Goloubev, N., Hartmann, R., Hasinoff, N., Hoffmann, D., Jacoby, J., Kang, D., Konigsmann, Kay, Kotthaus, R., Krcmar, M., Kuster, M., Lakic, B., Liolios, A., Ljubicic, A., Lutz, G., Luzon, G., Miley, H., Morales, A., Morales, J., Mutterer, M., Nikolaidis, A., Ortiz, a., Papaevangelou, T., Placci, A., Raffelt, G., Riege, H., Sarsa, M., Savvidis, I., Schopper, R., Semertzidis, I., Spano, C., Villar, J., Vullierme, B., Walckiers, L., Zachariadou, K., Zioutas, K.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2002
Materias:
Astrophysics and Astronomy
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/593785
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Sumario:The CAST experiment is being mounted at CERN. It will make use of a decommissioned LHC test magnet to look for solar axions through its conversion into photons inside the magnetic field. The magnet has a field of 9 Tesla and length of 10 m and is installed in a platform which allows to move it ~8 degrees vertically and ~40 degrees horizontally. According to these numbers we expect a sensitivity in axion-photon coupling ~5 x 10^-11 GeV^-1 for axion masses m < ~10^-2 eV, and with a gas filled tube 10^-10 GeV^-1 for m < ~2 eV.

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