1. Search for solar axions: the CAST experiment at CERN
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Beltran, Berta, Andriamonje, S., Arsov, V., Aune, S., Autiero, D., Avignone, F., Barth, K., Belov, A., Brauninger, H., Carmona, J. M., Cebrian, S., Chesi, E., Collar, J. I., Creswick, R., Dafni, T., Davenport, M., Di Lella, L., Eleftheriadis, C., Englhauser, J., Fanourakis, G., Farach, H., Ferrer, E., Fischer, H., Franz, J., Friedrich, P., Geralis, T., Giomataris, I., Gninenko, S., Goloubev, N., Hartmann, R., Hasinoff, M. D., Fritz-Herbert Heinsius, Hoffmann, D. H. H., Irastorza, I. G., Jacoby, J., Kang, D., Konigsmann, Kay, Kotthaus, R., Krcmar, M., Kousouris, K., Kuster, M., Lakic, B., Lasseur, C., Liolios, A., Ljubicic, A., Lutz, G., Luzon, G., Miller, David Wilkins, Morales, A., Morales, J., Mutterer, M., Nikolaidis, A., Ortiz, A., Papaevangelou, T., Placci, A., Raffelt, G., Ruz, J., Riege, H., Sarsa, M. L., Savvidis, I., Serber, W., Serpico, P., Semertzidis, Y., Stewart, L., Vieira, J. D., Villar, J., Walckiers, L., Zachariadou, K., Zioutas, K., Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), and Girod, Dominique
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[PHYS.ASTR.SR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR] ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,[SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR] ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,[SDU.ASTR.SR] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR] ,solar axions ,dark matter ,low background ,[PHYS.ASTR.SR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR] ,Particle Physics - Experiment ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
Hypothetical axion-like particles with a two-photon interaction would be produced in the sun by the Primakoff process. In a laboratory magnetic field they would be transformed into X-rays with energies of a few keV. The CAST experiment at CERN is using a decommissioned LHC magnet as an axion helioscope in order to search for these axion-like particles. The analysis of the 2003 data has shown no signal above the background, thus implying an upper limit to the axion-photon coupling < 1.16*10^{-10} GeV^{-1} at 95% CL for m_{a}
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- 2005