1. Search for chameleons with CAST
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J. I. Collar, M. Arik, F.J. Iguaz, Milica Krčmar, Javier Galan, Philippe Brax, José Villar, S. C. Yildiz, Marin Karuza, Julia Vogel, K. Barth, G. Luzón, Biljana Lakić, M. Davenport, M. Kavuk, I. Ortega, Joachim Jacoby, Heinrich Bräuninger, Serkant Ali Cetin, T. Geralis, Georg G. Raffelt, E. Ferrer-Ribas, M. Rosu, H. Riege, T. Papaevangelou, J. G. Garza, Theodoros Vafeiadis, A. Belov, I. G. Irastorza, S. Aune, A. Gardikiotis, Krešimir Jakovčić, F. Haug, I. Savvidis, J. M. Laurent, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, Peter Friedrich, S. Neff, Charles J. Hailey, M. J. Pivovaroff, Konstantin Zioutas, T. Dafni, Vassilis Anastassopoulos, J. Ruz, I. Giomataris, Klaus Kurt Desch, I. Lavrentyev, Finn Erland Christensen, C. Eleftheriadis, Ante Ljubičić, A. V. Dermenev, A. Upadhye, C. Krieger, Sami K. Solanki, J. M. Carmona, M. D. Hasinoff, Georgios Fanourakis, G. Cantatore, Evangelos Gazis, Jochen Kaminski, Anders Clemen Jakobsen, A. Krüger, A. Liolios, J. A. Garcia, Doğuş Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Fizik Bölümü, TR3959, Çetin, Serkant Ali, Anastassopoulos, V, Arik, M., Aune, S., Barth, K., Belov, A., Bräuninger, H., Cantatore, Giovanni, Carmona, J. M., Cetin, S. A., Christensen, F., Collar, J. I., Dafni, T., Davenport, M., Desch, K., Dermenev, A., Eleftheriadis, C., Fanourakis, G., Ferrer Ribas, E., Friedrich, P., Galán, J., García, J. A., Gardikiotis, A., Garza, J. G., Gazis, E. N., Geralis, T., Giomataris, I., Hailey, C., Haug, F., Hasinoff, M. D., Hoffmann, D. H. H., Iguaz, F. J., Irastorza, I. G., Jacoby, J., Jakobsen, A., Jakovčić, K., Kaminski, J., Karuza, M., Kavuk, M., Krčmar, M., Krieger, C., Krüger, A., Lakić, B., Laurent, J. M., Liolios, A., Ljubičić, A., Luzón, G., Neff, S., Ortega, I., Papaevangelou, T., Pivovaroff, M. J., Raffelt, G., Riege, H., Rosu, M., Ruz, J., Savvidis, I., Solanki, S. K., Vafeiadis, T., Villar, J. A., Vogel, J. K., Yildiz, S. C., Zioutas, K., Brax, P., Lavrentyev, I., and Upadhye, A.
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Astrophysics and Astronomy ,Photon ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Tachocline ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,SDD ,X-ray ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,0103 physical sciences ,Chameleon ,Dark energy ,010306 general physics ,Axion ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,Primakoff effect ,Coupling constant ,Coupling ,Physics ,CAST ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,lcsh:QC1-999 ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,CERN Axion Solar Telescope ,lcsh:Physics - Abstract
In this work we present a search for (solar) chameleons with the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST). This novel experimental technique, in the field of dark energy research, exploits both the chameleon coupling to matter ($\beta_{\rm m}$) and to photons ($\beta_{\gamma}$) via the Primakoff effect. By reducing the X-ray detection energy threshold used for axions from 1$\,$keV to 400$\,$eV CAST became sensitive to the converted solar chameleon spectrum which peaks around 600$\,$eV. Even though we have not observed any excess above background, we can provide a 95% C.L. limit for the coupling strength of chameleons to photons of $\beta_{\gamma}\!\lesssim\!10^{11}$ for $1, Comment: 8 pages, 12 figures
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- 2015
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