Search

Your search keyword '"Biljana Lakić"' showing total 48 results
Start Over Author "Biljana Lakić"
48 results on '"Biljana Lakić"'

1. Beneficial Effects of Ursodeoxycholic Acid on Metabolic Parameters and Oxidative Stress in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Randomized Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Study

Author

Biljana Lakić, Ranko Škrbić, Snežana Uletilović, Nebojša Mandić-Kovačević, Milkica Grabež, Mirna Popović Šarić, Miloš P. Stojiljković, Ivan Soldatović, Zorica Janjetović, Anastasija Stokanović, Nataša Stojaković, and Momir Mikov

Subjects
Diseases of the endocrine glands. Clinical endocrinology, RC648-665
Abstract

Background. Oxidative stress and inflammation are closely related pathophysiological processes, both occurring in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In addition to the standard treatment of T2DM, a potential strategy has been focused on the use of bile acids (BAs) as an additional treatment. Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA), as the first BA used in humans, improves glucose and lipid metabolism and attenuates oxidative stress. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential metabolic, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidative effects of UDCA in patients with T2DM. Methods. This prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study included 60 patients with T2DM, randomly allocated to receive UDCA or placebo. Subjects were treated with 500 mg tablets of UDCA or placebo administered three times per day (total dose of 1500 mg/day) for eight weeks. Two study visits, at the beginning (F0) and at the end (F1) of the study, included the interview, anthropometric and clinical measurements, and biochemical analyses. Results. UDCA treatment showed a significant reduction in body mass index (p=0.024) and in diastolic blood pressure (p=0.033), compared to placebo. In addition, there was a statistically significant difference in waist circumference in the UDCA group before and after treatment (p

Published
2024
Full Text
View/download PDF

2. Detection of peripheral arterial disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in family medicine clinic

Author

Biljana Lakić, Saša Turajlić, and Verica Petrović

Subjects
peripheral arterial disease, patient, type 2 diabetes mellitus, ankle-brachial index (abi), Medicine
Abstract

Introduction. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a progressive, occlusive and atherosclerotic vascular disease and patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) are at increased risk of developing this disease. The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of PAD in patients with type 2 DM by measuring the ankle-brachial index (ABI) in the family medicine clinic. Methods. The cross-sectional study included the patients with type 2 DM, registered at the Family Medicine Department of Primary Healthcare Center Laktaši. ABI measurement was carried out by means of the “Boso ABI Mess 100 Oscillometer” apparatus while patients were diagnosed with PAD if the ABI value was 1.3. Results. The study included 178 respondents with type 2 DM, aged ≥50 years, whereby 90 of them (50.6%) were men. PAD was found in 26 (14.6%) respondents. There was a statistically significant difference in ABI (left/ right leg) between the patients with PAD and the ones without it (0.82/0.84 vs. 1.04/1.05; p

Published
2019
Full Text
View/download PDF

3. Retrospective analysis of the role and performance of family medicine versus emergency medical services in the pre-hospital management of patients with AMI in Banja Luka

Author

Biljana Lakić, Maja Račić, and Duško Vulić

Subjects
Acute myocardial infarction, Family medicine, Emergency medical services, Medicine (General), R5-920
Abstract

Objective. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in pre-hospital care of patients with acute myocardial infarction between emergency medical services and family medicine. Patients and methods. This retrospective descriptive study included patients treated for acute myocardial infarction at the University Clinical Centre of Banja Luka, in the period from 1st January to 31st December 2011. The patients were divided into two groups: patients who received a hospital referral from the family medicine service and those who received one from the emergency medical service. Results. The majority of patients (54.8%) received pre-hospital care from emergency medical services, while in 24.8% of cases the care was provided by family medicine physicians. The analysis showed that the time that passed from the onset of symptoms to the visit to the health institution of first medical contact was shorter in the emergency medical service (p

Published
2016
Full Text
View/download PDF

4. First results of the CAST-RADES haloscope search for axions at 34.67 μeV

Author

I. Tsagris, S. Arguedas Cuendis, M. D. Hasinoff, C. Peña Garay, M. J. Pivovaroff, Konstantin Zioutas, Marc Schumann, E. Widmann, Javier Redondo, K. Özbozduman, A. Gardikiotis, Wolfgang Funk, Sami K. Solanki, Juan Daniel Gallego, L. Stewart, Klaus Kurt Desch, M. Maroudas, S. Calatroni, A. J. Lozano-Guerrero, J. F. Castel, H. Mirallas, Giovanni Cantatore, Benito Gimeno, C. Cogollos, Marin Karuza, P. Navarro, Babette Döbrich, T. Dafni, Yannis K. Semertzidis, Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo, Theodoros Vafeiadis, D. H. H. Hoffmann, Heinrich Bräuninger, J. M. Laurent, J.M. García Barceló, Serkant Ali Cetin, Chloé Malbrunot, J. Baier, Jochen Kaminski, J. Ruz, S. Schmidt, Fritz Caspers, I. G. Irastorza, E. Ruiz Chóliz, S. N. Gninenko, Walter Wuensch, A. V. Dermenev, A. Ozbey, J. Golm, M. Davenport, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Julia Vogel, K. Barth, G. Luzón, Biljana Lakić, Krešimir Jakovčić, H. Fischer, L. Miceli, J. G. Garza, Alejandro Álvarez Melcón, İstinye Üniversitesi, Serkant Ali Çetin / 0000-0001-5050-8441, Cetin, Serkant Ali, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission, German Research Foundation, Department of Energy (US), SCOAP, European Research Council, Generalitat Valenciana, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Organization for Nuclear Research, Diputación General de Aragón, and Gobierno de Aragón

Subjects
Exotics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Dark-Matter, Cavity, Cp Conservation, Library science, QC770-798, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Dark matter, Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments), Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 0103 physical sciences, media_common.cataloged_instance, Dark Matter, European union, 010306 general physics, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, European research, Advice (programming), National laboratory, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract

et al., We present results of the Relic Axion Dark-Matter Exploratory Setup (RADES), a detector which is part of the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST), searching for axion dark matter in the 34.67 μeV mass range. A radio frequency cavity consisting of 5 sub-cavities coupled by inductive irises took physics data inside the CAST dipole magnet for the first time using this filter-like haloscope geometry. An exclusion limit with a 95% credibility level on the axion-photon coupling constant of gaγ ≳ 4 × 10−13 GeV−1 over a mass range of 34.6738 μeV < ma < 34.6771 μeV is set. This constitutes a significant improvement over the current strongest limit set by CAST at this mass and is at the same time one of the most sensitive direct searches for an axion dark matter candidate above the mass of 25 μeV. The results also demonstrate the feasibility of exploring a wider mass range around the value probed by CAST-RADES in this work using similar coherent resonant cavities., Article funded by SCOAP3., This work has been funded by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI) and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) under project FPA-2016-76978-C3-2-P (supported by the grant FPI BES-2017-079787) and PID2019-108122GB-C33, and was supported by the CERN Doctoral Studentship programme. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council and BD, JG and SAC acknowledge support through the European Research Council under grant ERC-2018-StG-802836 (AxScale project). BD also acknowledges fruitful discussions at MIAPP supported by DFG under EXC-2094 – 390783311. IGI acknowledges also support from the European Research Council (ERC) under grant ERC-2017-AdG-788781 (IAXO+ project). JR has been supported by the Ramon y Cajal Fellowship 2012-10597, the grant PGC2018-095328-BI00(FEDER/Agencia estatal de investigación) and FSE-DGA2017-2019-E12/7R (Gobierno de Aragón/FEDER) (MINECO/FEDER), the EU through the ITN “Elusives” H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015/674896 and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under grant SFB-1258 as a Mercator Fellow. CPG was supported by PROMETEO II/2014/050 of Generalitat Valenciana, FPA2014-57816-P of MINECO and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreements 690575 and 674896. AM is supported by the European Research Council under Grant No. 742104.

Published
2021

5. Association between microvascular complications and glycated hemoglobin in patients with diabetes

Author

Biljana Lakić, Suzana Savić, Verica Petrović, and Kosana Stanetić

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Proteinuria, Diabetic neuropathy, business.industry, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, General Medicine, Diabetic angiopathy, medicine.disease, Gastroenterology, Nephropathy, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, Diabetes mellitus, Internal medicine, medicine, Microalbuminuria, Glycated hemoglobin, medicine.symptom, business
Abstract

Introduction. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of microvascular complications in type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in relation to glycated hemoglobin. Material and Methods. This cross-sectional study analyzed the prevalence of microvascular complications in patients with diabetes mellitus registered at the Primary Health Center Banja Luka. Demographic data, duration of diabetes, blood pressure, glycated hemoglobin, dyslipidemia, type of therapy, presence of retinopathy, neuropathy and nephropathy were analyzed. Data collection was done from December 2017 to November 2018. Results. The study included 228 patients, 132 (57.9%) men and 96 (42.1%) women. The most common microvascular complication was diabetic neuropathy (24.2%). The mean glycated hemoglobin level in patients with diabetic complications was 7.75 ? 1.66%. Although all participants with complications had unregulated diabetes mellitus (glycated hemoglobin > 7%), a statistically significant difference was found in regard to microalbuminuria (> 30 mg/24 h) and/or proteinuria (> 0.15 g/24 h) and/or decreased creatinine clearance (< 1.5 ml/sec) and their mean glycated hemoglobin (p = 0.025), while for other complications (neuropathy and retinopathy) the same was not confirmed. Multivariate logistic regression analysis confirmed that microalbuminuria and/or proteinuria and/or decreased creatinine clearance (odds ratio = 2.174; 95% confidence interval: 1.040 - 4.543; p = 0.039) as well as elevated diastolic blood pressure (odds ratio = 1.09; 95% confidence interval: 1.024 - 1.162; p = 0.007) were factors associated with glycated hemoglobin > 7%. Conclusion. The most common microvascular complication in patients with both types of diabetes mellitus is diabetic neuropathy with a prevalence of 24.2%. The presence of microalbuminuria and/or proteinuria and/ or decreased creatinine clearance were associated with glycated hemoglobin > 7% and elevated diastolic blood pressure.

Published
2020
Full Text
View/download PDF

6. Conceptual design of BabyIAXO, the intermediate stage towards the International Axion Observatory

Author

S. Arguedas Cuendis, C. Oriol, J. Castel, D. Voronin, A. Abeln, Olivier Limousin, A. Marin-Franch, Sergey Troitsky, S. Cebrián, D. Gascon, D. D. M. Ferreira, C. J. Hailey, L. Gastaldo, Stefano Basso, R. Iglesias-Marzoa, T. Dafni, K. Altenmüller, L. Segui, Ulrich Werthenbach, D. Hengstler, J. Golm, J. M. Carmona, F.J. Iguaz, Maurizio Giannotti, F. Rueda-Teruel, Leonid Kravchuk, V. S. Pantuev, S. Aune, S. Rueda-Teruel, K. Ludwig, D. Calvet, Joan Mauricio, Igor Tkachev, Klaus Kurt Desch, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, E. Ferrer-Ribas, Fabrizio Tavecchio, A. Dudarev, J. P. Mols, Andreas Ringwald, A. A. Nozik, U. Schneekloth, X. F. Navick, Javier Redondo, M. M. Civitani, N. Bykovskiy, E. O. Saemann, Nikita Ushakov, B. Döbrich, O. Pérez, Thomas Papaevangelou, A. Lindner, S. N. Gninenko, B. Kanoute, Eric Armengaud, E. Unzhakov, C. Cogollos, C. Iñiguez, Matthias Mentink, P. Borges de Sousa, Susanne Mertens, Søren Schmidt, Federico Mescia, J. Ruz, Pierre Brun, L. Dumoulin, C. Malbrunot, J. Hahn, V. Chernov, A. Ortiz de Solórzano, K. Perez, Thierry Lasserre, I. Drachnev, S. Karstensen, L. Bergé, Y. Giomataris, L. Obis, E. Picatoste, F. Marutzky, S. Oster, I. Lomskaya, Jordi Salvado, B. Biasuzzi, I. G. Irastorza, Lars Hagge, H. P. Pais Da Silva, Y. Menesguen, J. Kaminski, Walter Wuensch, G. López-Alegre, Alessio Notari, S. Marnieros, Michael J. Pivovaroff, Ivor Fleck, A. V. Derbin, P. Laurent, Finn Erland Christensen, T. Schiffer, N. Golubev, David Attié, P. L. Henriksen, C. Nones, D. Unger, M. Dinter, D.V. Poda, A. Giuliani, C. Margalejo, E. Ruiz-Choliz, Julia Vogel, G. Luzón, Amanda Weltman, T. Houdy, Krešimir Jakovčić, G. Pareschi, D. Díez, A. Yanes-Díaz, Matias Rodrigues, F. Orsini, Matthias Schott, J. Galán, V. N. Muratova, Martin Loidl, Biljana Lakić, H. Mirallas, H. H. J. ten Kate, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST), Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), IAXO, Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST (CEA)), ANR-19-CE31-0024,DALPS,Déteteurs pour la recherche des particules 'axion-like'(2019), Irastorza, I. G., and IAXO Collaboration

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, QC770-798, Other experiments, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, design [detector], High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Observatory, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Other experiment, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, physics.ins-det, Physics, solar [axion], Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), CP violation, Beyond Standard Model, Dark matter, axion-like particles, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Particle Physics - Experiment, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Astrophysics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, dark matter, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Sensitivity (control systems), 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Axion, detector: design, Helioscope, axion: dark matter, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, DESY, IAXO, sensitivity, optics, Beyond standard model, axion: solar, dark matter [axion], astro-ph.IM
Abstract

This article describes BabyIAXO, an intermediate experimental stage of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO), proposed to be sited at DESY. IAXO is a large-scale axion helioscope that will look for axions and axion-like particles (ALPs), produced in the Sun, with unprecedented sensitivity. BabyIAXO is conceived to test all IAXO subsystems (magnet, optics and detectors) at a relevant scale for the final system and thus serve as prototype for IAXO, but at the same time as a fully-fledged helioscope with relevant physics reach itself, and with potential for discovery. The BabyIAXO magnet will feature two 10 m long, 70 cm diameter bores, and will host two detection lines (optics and detector) of dimensions similar to the final ones foreseen for IAXO. BabyIAXO will detect or reject solar axions or ALPs with axion-photon couplings down to $g_{a\gamma} \sim 1.5 \times 10^{-11}$ GeV$^{-1}$, and masses up to $m_a\sim 0.25$ eV. BabyIAXO will offer additional opportunities for axion research in view of IAXO, like the development of precision x-ray detectors to identify particular spectral features in the solar axion spectrum, and the implementation of radiofrequency-cavity-based axion dark matter setups., Comment: 77 pages, 49 figures. Prepared for submission to JHEP. Third version after referees comments

Published
2021
Full Text
View/download PDF

7. Axion search with BabyIAXO in view of IAXO

Author

Pierre Brun, A. Marin-Franch, S. Aune, C. Iñiguez, G. Luzón, D. Díez, Y. Giomataris, L. Obis, Nikolai Golubev, Igor Tkachev, G. Pareschi, S. Rueda-Teruel, B. Biasuzzi, D. Unger, Marta Civitani, O. Limousin, L. Kravchuk, A. Abeln, K. Altenmüller, Walter Wuensch, Ulrich Werthenbach, Sergey Troitsky, N. Bykovskiy, J.P. Mols, Sergei Gninenko, J. Golm, L. Dumoulin, Amanda Weltman, Matthias Mentink, C. Nones, Krešimir Jakovčić, I. Lomskaya, Javier Redondo, J. Vogel, J. Ruz, I. Drachnev, M. J. Pivovaroff, D.V. Poda, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Javier Galan, Loredana Gastaldo, T. Lasserre, C. Malbrunot, I. G. Irastorza, Lars Hagge, Nikita Ushakov, P. L. Henriksen, Joan Mauricio, D. Calvet, E. Ruiz-Choliz, V. Chernov, A. Ortiz de Solórzano, T. Papaevangelou, K. Perez, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, S. Marnieros, R. Iglesias-Marzoa, J. F. Castel, H. P. Pais Da Silva, S. Schmidt, H. Ten Kate, S. Cebrián, Fabrizio Tavecchio, A. A. Nozik, F. J. Iguaz-Gutierrez, Finn Erland Christensen, Y. Menesguen, David Gascon, T. Schiffer, P. Laurent, V. S. Pantuev, M. R.D. Rodrigues, D. Hengstler, David Attié, C. Margalejo, J. M. Carmona, Jordi Salvado, B. Kanoute, F. Marutzky, Stefano Basso, T. Dafni, S. Arguedas Cuendis, Alexey Dudarev, C. Oriol, S. Oster, Luc Bergé, G. López-Alegre, J. Hahn, Biljana Lakić, U. Schneekloth, H. Mirallas, Maurizio Giannotti, E. Ferrer-Ribas, Charles J. Hailey, X-F. Navick, F. Rueda-Teruel, A. V. Derbin, E. O. Saemann, E. Armengaud, E. Picatoste, Federico Mescia, V. Muratova, Martin Loidl, O. Pérez, D. Voronin, P. Borges de Sousa, K. Ludwig, Klaus Kurt Desch, Babette Döbrich, S. Karstensen, D. D. M. Ferreira, L. Segui, Andreas Ringwald, C. Cogollos, A. Yanes-Díaz, Ivor Fleck, F. Orsini, A. Giuliani, Matthias Schott, Jochen Kaminski, Alessio Notari, M. Dinter, E. Unzhakov, A. Lindner, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST), Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Heidelberg University, University of Zaragoza - Universidad de Zaragoza [Zaragoza], European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology [Moscow] (MIPT), Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), National Research Center 'Kurchatov Institute' (NRC KI), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron [Hamburg] (DESY), National Space Institute [Lyngby] (DTU Space), University of Siegen, Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg, Dept Phys Sci - Barry University, Barry University, Institute for Nuclear Research of Russian Academy of Sciences (INR), Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany], Universität Siegen [Siegen], Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón, Rudjer Boskovic Institute [Zagreb], Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNHB), Département Métrologie Instrumentation & Information (DM2I), Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Département d'instrumentation Numérique (DIN (CEA-LIST)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Stanford University, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz = Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), University of Cape Town, IAXO collaboration, Technical University of Denmark [Lyngby] (DTU), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST), and Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz (JGU)

Subjects
Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, solar axion, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], experimental methods, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, 7. Clean energy, String (physics), Standard Model, axion helioscope, design [detector], International Axion Observatory (IAXO), Observatory, Peccei-Quinn mechanism, Dark Matter, detector design, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Axion, sun-tracking systems, physics.ins-det, activity report, detector: design, Physics, instrumentation, Helioscope, Large Hadron Collider, detector, solar [axion], DESY, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), [PHYS.ASTR.SR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], IAXO, magnet, optics, axion: solar
Abstract

Axions are a natural consequence of the Peccei-Quinn mechanism, the most compelling solution to the strong-CP problem. Similar axion-like particles (ALPs) also appear in a number of possible extensions of the Standard Model, notably in string theories. Both axions and ALPs are very well motivated candidates for Dark Matter, and in addition, they would be copiously produced at the sun's core. A relevant effort during the last decade has been the CAST experiment at CERN, the most sensitive axion helioscope to-date. The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a large-scale 4th generation helioscope. As its primary physics goal, IAXO will look for solar axions or ALPs with a signal to background ratio of about 5 orders of magnitude higher than CAST. Recently the IAXO collaboration has proposed and intermediate experimental stage, BabyIAXO, conceived to test all IAXO subsystems (magnet, optics, detectors and sun-tracking systems) at a relevant scale for the final system and thus serve as pathfinder for IAXO but at the same time as a fully-fledged helioscope with record and relevant physics reach in itself with potential for discovery. BabyIAXO was endorsed by the Physics Review committee of DESY last May 2019. Here we will review the status and prospects of BabyIAXO and its potential to probe the most physics motivated regions of the axion & ALPs parameter space., 6 pages, ICHEP 2020 Virtual conference

Published
2020
Full Text
View/download PDF

8. Detection of peripheral arterial disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in family medicine clinic

Author

Verica Petrović, Saša Turajlić, and Biljana Lakić

Subjects
body regions, peripheral arterial disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, ankle-brachial index (abi), lcsh:R, lcsh:Medicine, General Materials Science, patient
Abstract

Introduction. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a progressive, occlusive and atherosclerotic vascular disease and patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) are at increased risk of developing this disease. The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of PAD in patients with type 2 DM by measuring the ankle-brachial index (ABI) in the family medicine clinic. Methods. The cross-sectional study included the patients with type 2 DM, registered at the Family Medicine Department of Primary Healthcare Center Laktaši. ABI measurement was carried out by means of the "Boso ABI Mess 100 Oscillometer" apparatus while patients were diagnosed with PAD if the ABI value was 1.3. Results. The study included 178 respondents with type 2 DM, aged ≥50 years, whereby 90 of them (50.6%) were men. PAD was found in 26 (14.6%) respondents. There was a statistically significant difference in ABI (left/ right leg) between the patients with PAD and the ones without it (0.82/0.84 vs. 1.04/1.05; p

Published
2019
Full Text
View/download PDF

9. Ten-year risk assessment for type 2 diabetes mellitus using the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score in family medicine

Author

Suzana, Savić, Saša, Stanivuković, and Biljana, Lakić

Subjects
Adult, Male, Adolescent, Middle Aged, Risk Assessment, Body Mass Index, Young Adult, Cross-Sectional Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Risk Factors, Humans, Female, Prospective Studies, Family Practice, Finland, Aged
Abstract

Aim To assess ten-year risk of diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM) using the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) in respondents over 18, in Primary Health Centre in Banja Luka. Methods A prospective study was conducted using data from a population with undiagnosed T2DM in Primary Health Centre in Banja Luka. Eligible respondents were those aged 18 to 70 years. Sociodemographic, behavioural and anthropometric variables were those related to the risk models evaluated by FINDRISC. Results Data were collected from 520 individuals, 58.8% female and 41.2% male (p=0.005). A very high risk of developing T2DM in the next ten years was found in 5.6% females and 3.7% males. A high risk was found in 12.4% females and 15.9% males, 34.2% respondents ≥ 65 years, 28.8% with body mass index30 kg/m2 , 26.6% who were not practicing physical activity (p=0.000), 24.0% who took antihypertensive drugs, 42.3% who were diagnosed with impaired glycaemia, 30.4% and 22.9% respondents whose parents and distant relatives, respectively, had T2DM. A moderate risk occurred in 31.4% females with waist circumference88 cm. Half (50%) males with waist circumference102 cm and 33.2% respondents who were not eating fruits and vegetables every day had a slightly increased risk of developing T2DM (p0.05). Conclusion The FINDRISC may be used as a tool which would help general practitioners in everyday work, to detect patients with T2DM risk factors and to encourage them to change life style towards healthy habits.

Published
2020

10. International Axion Observatory (IAXO) status and prospects

Author

Biljana Lakić

Subjects
Physics, History, High Energy Physics::Theory, Observatory, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astronomy, Axion, Particle Physics - Experiment, Computer Science Applications, Education
Abstract

International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a new generation axion helioscope aiming to search for solar axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) with a signal to background ratio of about 5 orders of magnitude higher than the one achieved by currently the most sensitive axion helioscope, CAST. IAXO relies on large improvements in magnetic field volume and extensive use of X-ray focusing optics combined with low-background detectors. IAXO will probe a substantial unexplored region of the axion and ALP parameter space which is theoretically and cosmologically motivated, and thus will have significant discovery potential. IAXO could also be used to test models of other proposed particles at the low energy frontier of particle physics, like hidden photons or chameleons. In addition, the IAXO magnet could accommodate new equipment to search for relic axions or ALPs potentially composing the galactic halo of dark matter.

Published
2020

11. First Results on the Search for Chameleons with the KWISP Detector at CAST

Author

C. Krieger, Sami K. Solanki, K. Barth, B. Döbrich, S. Neff, Michael J. Pivovaroff, J. Castel, A. Belov, I. Tsagris, E. Ruiz Chóliz, Marc Schumann, A. Ozbey, A. V. Dermenev, A. Bayirli, L. Stewart, S. C. Yildiz, J. Ruz, J. G. Garza, L. Miceli, Serkant Ali Cetin, S. Arguedas Cuendis, T. Dafni, Giovanni Cantatore, J. M. Laurent, F.J. Iguaz, T. Vafeiadis, J. M. Carmona, Klaus Kurt Desch, I. G. Irastorza, M. Maroudas, M. D. Hasinoff, S. N. Gninenko, Biljana Lakić, I. Ortega, H. Bräuninger, M. Vretenar, Konstantin Zioutas, Søren Schmidt, Marin Karuza, Sebastian Baum, Julia Vogel, G. Luzón, A. Gardikiotis, Yannis K. Semertzidis, J. Baier, M. Davenport, Krešimir Jakovčić, M. Rosu, H. Fischer, Wolfgang Funk, J. A. García, Dieter Hoffmann, J. Kaminski, Arguedas Cuendis, S., Baier, J., Barth, K., Baum, S., Bayirli, A., Belov, A., Brauninger, H., Cantatore, G., Carmona, J. M., Castel, J. F., Cetin, S. A., Dafni, T., Davenport, M., Dermenev, A., Desch, K., Dobrich, B., Fischer, H., Funk, W., Garcia, J. A., Gardikiotis, A., Garza, J. G., Gninenko, S., Hasinoff, M. D., Hoffmann, D. H. H., Iguaz, F. J., Irastorza, I. G., Jakovcic, K., Kaminski, J., Karuza, M., Krieger, C., Lakic, B., Laurent, J. M., Luzon, G., Maroudas, M., Miceli, L., Neff, S., Ortega, I., Ozbey, A., Pivovaroff, M. J., Rosu, M., Ruz, J., Choliz, E. R., Schmidt, S., Schumann, M., Semertzidis, Y. K., Solanki, S. K., Stewart, L., Tsagris, I., Vafeiadis, T., Vogel, J. K., Vretenar, M., Yildiz, S. C., Zioutas, K., and İÜC

Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Photon, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), astro-ph.SR, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Chameleons, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, Telescope, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Optics, law, Opto-mechanical sensor, 0103 physical sciences, Chameleon, Dark energy, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, 010306 general physics, chameleons, dark energy, opto-mechanical sensor, interferometry, Axion, physics.ins-det, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Physics, Coupling, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, hep-ex, Detector, Michelson interferometer, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Interferometry, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, astro-ph.CO, Direct coupling, business, Particle Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We report on a first measurement with a sensitive opto-mechanical force sensor designed for the direct detection of coupling of real chameleons to matter. These dark energy candidates could be produced in the Sun and stream unimpeded to Earth. The KWISP detector installed on the CAST axion search experiment at CERN looks for tiny displacements of a thin membrane caused by the mechanical effect of solar chameleons. The displacements are detected by a Michelson interferometer with a homodyne readout scheme. The sensor benefits from the focusing action of the ABRIXAS X-ray telescope installed at CAST, which increases the chameleon flux on the membrane. A mechanical chopper placed between the telescope output and the detector modulates the incoming chameleon stream. We present the results of the solar chameleon measurements taken at CAST in July 2017, setting an upper bound on the force acting on the membrane of $80$~pN at 95\% confidence level. The detector is sensitive for direct coupling to matter $10^4 \leq\beta_m \leq 10^8$, where the coupling to photons is locally bound to $\beta_\gamma \leq 10^{11}$., Comment: 21 pages, 12 figures

Published
2019

13. Frequency of Risk Factors in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Author

Maja Račić and Biljana Lakić

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Electrocardiography in myocardial infarction, Overweight, medicine.disease, Obesity, Sudden death, Internal medicine, Diabetes mellitus, Medicine, Myocardial infarction, Family history, medicine.symptom, Risk factor, business
Abstract

Introduction: Various risk factors contribute to the occurrence of acute myocardial infarction as the most serious type of ischemic heart disease and the leading cause of sudden death worldwide. Aim of the Study: The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of changeable and unchangeable risk factors in patients with acute myocardial infarction in the Republic of Srpska. Patients and Methods: This cross-sectional study included patients treated for acute myocardial infarction at the University Clinical Center of Banja Luka, in the period from January 1st to December 31st, 2011. The patients were from the municipalities of Banja Luka and Laktasi. We analyzed the following risk factors: hypertension, total cholesterol values, diabetes, increased body weight and obesity, smoking, family history and physical inactivity. Results: Out of 273 patients, the majority were male (64%), and there was a statistically significant difference between age and sex (p

Published
2016
Full Text
View/download PDF

14. An update on the Axion Helioscopes front: current activities at CAST and the IAXO project

Author

Joachim Jacoby, J. I. Collar, H. Ten Kate, Fritz Caspers, Julia Vogel, J. Kaminski, H. Silva, Giovanni Cantatore, Benito Gimeno, S. C. Yildiz, M. Betz, Alexey Dudarev, Georg G. Raffelt, A. Belov, F.J. Iguaz, Rainer Kotthaus, Javier Redondo, F. Haug, K. Barth, G. Luzón, Klaus Kurt Desch, C. Eleftheriadis, S. Caspi, P. Brax, Georgios Fanourakis, W. C. Wester, Hector Gomez, J. M. Laurent, N. Breijnholt, I. Dratchnev, Toyokazu Sekiguchi, S. Neff, L. Stewart, Joerg Jaeckel, Amanda Weltman, Marin Karuza, C. Krieger, Pierre Sikivie, A. Tomás, S. Aune, C. Nones, Heinrich Bräuninger, Serkant Ali Cetin, M. Rosu, I. G. Irastorza, J. M. Carmona, Babette Döbrich, Krešimir Jakovčić, Steffen Hauf, Takashi Hiramatsu, Biljana Lakić, Milica Krčmar, Evangelos Gazis, M. Davenport, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, T. Papaevangelou, J.A. Villar, A. V. Derbin, Ante Ljubičić, Dieter Horns, S. N. Gninenko, A. Diago, I. Ortega, S. Matsuki, E. Gruber, Sergey Troitsky, T. Dafni, J. G. Garza, I. Savvidis, Andreas Ringwald, A. Lindner, Jordi Isern, M. Arik, Javier Galan, Ken'ichi Saikawa, E. Georgiopoulou, T. Guthörl, Eduardo Guendelman, Adriane De Assis Lawisch Rodriguez, I. Shilon, D. Chelouche, S. Russenschuck, Kenichi Imai, V. N. Muratova, P. Vedrine, F.E. Christensen, T. O. Niinikoski, E. Ferrer-Ribas, F. T. Avignone, Charles J. Hailey, M. D. Hasinoff, Peter Friedrich, M. J. Pivovaroff, Konstantin Zioutas, Sami K. Solanki, Louis Walckiers, H. Riege, Pierre Brun, Konstantinos Kousouris, Markus Kuster, A. Dael, T. Geralis, Gianpaolo Carosi, J. A. Garcia, A. Gardikiotis, Yannis K. Semertzidis, Eric Armengaud, Raimo Hartmann, Theodoros Vafeiadis, J. Ruz, K. Königsmann, Masahiro Kawasaki, D. González-Díaz, I. Giomataris, K. van Bibber, Olivier Limousin, A.C. Jakobsen, A. Liolios, Dafni, T, Arik, M., Armengaud, E., Aune, S., Avignone, F. T., Barth, K., Belov, A., Betz, M., Bräuninger, H., Brax, P., Breijnholt, N., Brun, P., Cantatore, Giovanni, Carmona, J. M., Carosi, G. P., Caspers, F., Caspi, S., Cetin, S. A., Chelouche, D., Christensen, F. E., Collar, J. I., Dael, A., Davenport, M., Derbin, A. V., Desch, K., Diago, A., Döbrich, B., Dratchnev, I., Dudarev, A., Eleftheriadis, C., Fanourakis, G., Ferrer Ribas, E., Friedrich, P., Galán, J., García, J. A., Gardikiotis, A., Garza, J. G., Gazis, E. N., Georgiopoulou, E., Geralis, T., Gimeno, B., Giomataris, I., Gninenko, S., Gómez, H., González Díaz, D., Gruber, E., Guendelman, E., Guthörl, T., Hailey, C. J., Hartmann, R., Hauf, S., Haug, F., Hasinoff, M. D., Hiramatsu, T., Hoffmann, D. H. H., Horns, D., Iguaz, F. J., Irastorza, I. G., Isern, J., Imai, K., Jacoby, J., Jaeckel, J., Jakobsen, A. C., Jakovcić, K., Kaminski, J., Kawasaki, M., Karuza, M., Königsmann, K., Kotthaus, R., Krcmar, M., Kousouris, K., Krieger, C., Kuster, M., Lakić, B., Laurent, J. M., Limousin, O., Lindner, A., Liolios, A., Ljubicić, A., Luzón, G., Matsuki, S., Muratova, V. N., Neff, S., Niinikoski, T., Nones, C., Ortega, I., Papaevangelou, T., Pivovaroff, M. J., Raffelt, G., Redondo, J., Riege, H., Ringwald, A., Rodríguez, A., Rosu, M., Russenschuck, S., Ruz, J., Saikawa, K., Savvidis, I., Sekiguchi, T., Semertzidis, Y. K., Shilon, I., Sikivie, P., Silva, H., Solanki, S. K., Stewart, L., ten Kate, H. H. J., Tomas, A., Troitsky, S., Vafeiadis, T., van Bibber, K., Vedrine, P., Villar, J. A., Vogel, J. K., Walckiers, L., Weltman, A., Wester, W., Yildiz, S. C., Zioutas, K., Doğuş Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Fizik Bölümü, TR3959, Çetin, Serkant Ali, Arık, Metin, and Yıldız, Süleyman Cenk

Subjects
X-Ray Focusing Devices, X-ray detector, Particle physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, X-ray focusing device, Axions, Dark matter, Magnet Development, Micromegas detector, axions, dark matter, x-ray, detectors, micromegas detectors, x-ray focusing devices, magnet development, CAST, IAXO, 01 natural sciences, Axion, Primary (astronomy), Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Dark Matter, X-Ray Detectors, 010306 general physics, Physics, Helioscope, Micromegas Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Magnet development, Micromegas detectors, X-ray detectors, X-ray focusing devices, Orders of magnitude (time), Experimental methods, CERN Axion Solar Telescope
Abstract

Çetin, Serkant Ali (Dogus Author) -- Arık, Metin (Dogus Author) -- Yıldız, Süleyman Cenk (Dogus Author) Although they have not yet been detected, axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) continue to maintain the interest (even increasingly so) of the rare-event searches community as viable candidates for the Dark Matter of the Universe but also as a solution for several other puzzles of astrophysics. Their property of coupling to photons has inspired different experimental methods for their detection, one of which is the helioscope technique. The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is the most sensitive helioscope built up to date and has recently published part of the latest data taken with the magnet bores gradually filled with He-3, probing the mass range up to 1.17 eV. The International AXion Observatory (IAXO) is being proposed as a facility where different axion studies can be performed, with the primary goal to study axions coming from the Sun. Designed to maximize sensitivity, it will improve the levels reached by CAST by almost 5 orders of magnitude in signal detection, that is more than one order of magnitude in terms of gay. Here we will summarize the most important aspects of the helioscopes, and focus mainly on IAXO, based on the recent papers [1, 2].

Published
2016
Full Text
View/download PDF

15. Weighing the solar axion

Author

Ciaran A. J. O'Hare, Biljana Lakić, Javier Galan, Krešimir Jakovčić, G. Luzón, I. G. Irastorza, T. Dafni, F.J. Iguaz, Elisa Ruiz Chóliz, Javier Redondo, Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Particle physics, solar axions, helioscope, axion mass, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Photon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, energy resolution, FOS: Physical sciences, Inverse, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics::Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, axion: coupling, 010306 general physics, Axion, Astroparticle physics, Physics, Helioscope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Oscillation, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, photon, Observable, oscillation, suppression, sensitivity, magnet, coherence, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Beyond the standard model, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], spectral, axion-like particles, axion: mass, axion: solar, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Axion helioscopes search for solar axions and axion-like particles via inverse Primakoff conversion in strong laboratory magnets pointed at the Sun. While helioscopes can always measure the axion coupling to photons, the conversion signal is independent of the mass for axions lighter than around 0.02 eV. Masses above this value on the other hand have suppressed signals due to axion-photon oscillations which destroy the coherence of the conversion along the magnet. However, the spectral oscillations present in the axion conversion signal between these two regimes are highly dependent on the axion mass. We show that these oscillations are observable given realistic energy resolutions and can be used to determine the axion mass to within percent level accuracies. Using projections for the upcoming helioscope IAXO, we demonstrate that $>3\sigma$ sensitivity to a non-zero axion mass is possible between $3 \times 10^{-3}$ and $10^{-1}$ eV for both the Primakoff and axion-electron solar fluxes., Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures, matches published version, code available at http://cajohare.github.io/IAXOmass

Published
2019
Full Text
View/download PDF

16. Next Generation Search for Axion and ALP Dark Matter with the International Axion Observatory

Author

S. Basso, I. Lomskaya, I. G. Irastorza, Javier Redondo, Olivier Limousin, A. Nunez, Ioannis Giomataris, Lluis Garrido, Jochen Kaminski, Milica Krčmar, Alessio Notari, Amanda Weltman, A. A. Nozik, A. Lindner, P. Vedrine, D. Costa, L. Gastaldo, David Gascon, I. Tkackev, J. F. Castel, Ricardo Graciani, V. S. Pantuev, Matthias Schott, Andreas Ringwald, Krešimir Jakovčić, J. M. Carmona, Pierre Brun, Cristiano Germani, Thierry Lasserre, E. Ferrer-Ribas, Jordi Salvado, M. J. Pivovaroff, S. Cebrián, K. Perez, U. Schneekloth, C. Nones, F. Mescia, G. Tagliaferri, E. V. Unzhakov, V. N. Muratova, E. Armengaud, T. Schiffer, Sergey Troitsky, F. Tavecchio, Biljana Lakić, G. Pareschi, N. Golubev, David Attié, Julia Vogel, J. Galan, N. Bykovskiy, X.F. Navick, C. Cogollos, G. Luzón, C. Krieger, H. Mirallas, J. Ruz, S. Schmidt, E. Ruiz-Choliz, H. Ten Kate, P. Laurent, G. Galanti, T. Dafni, Klaus Kurt Desch, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, H. Silva, A. V. Derbin, Marie-Anne Descalle, S. N. Gninenko, I. Dratchnev, A. Ortiz de Solórzano, B. Dobrich, T. Papaevangelou, G. Ghisellini, Maurizio Giannotti, E. Picatoste, M. M. Civitani, Alexey Dudarev, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay

Subjects
Particle physics, CERN Lab, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, Observatories, axion: detector, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, High Energy Physics::Theory, Primakoff effect, Sensitivity, WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Axion, activity report, Physics, Helioscope, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Toroidal magnetic fields, Detectors, observatory, 13. Climate action, Couplings, axion-like particles, proposed experiment, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, axion: solar, Telescopes
Abstract

International audience; More than 80 years after the postulation of dark matter, its nature remains one of the fundamental questions in cosmology. Axions are currently one of the leading candidates for the hypothetical, non-baryonic dark matter that is expected to account for about 25% of the energy density of the Universe. Especially in the light of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN slowly closing in on Weakly-Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) searches, axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a viable alternative approach to solving the dark matter problem. The fact that makes them particularly appealing is that they were initially introduced to solve a long-standing problem in quantum chromodynamics and the Standard Model of particle physics.Helioscopes are a type of axion experiment searching for axions produced in the core of the Sun via the Primakoff effect. The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a next generation axion helioscope aiming at a sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling of 1 − 1.5 orders of magnitude beyond the current most sensitive axion helioscope, which is the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST). IAXO will be able to challenge the stringent bounds from supernova SN1987A and test the axion interpretation of anomalous white-dwarf cooling. Beyond standard axions, this new experiment will also be able to search for a large variety of axion-like particles and other novel excitations at the low-energy frontier of elementary particle physics. BabyIAXO is proposed as an intermediate-scale experiment increasing the sensitivity to axion-photon couplings down to a few 10$^{−11}$ GeV$^{−1}$ and thus delivering significant physics results while demonstrating the feasibility of the full-scale IAXO experiment. Here we introduce the IAXO and BabyIAXO experiments, report on the current status of both and outline the expected IAXO science reach.

Published
2018
Full Text
View/download PDF

17. The Next Generation of Axion Helioscopes: The International Axion Observatory (IAXO)

Author

Javier Redondo, Biljana Lakić, Eduardo Guendelman, K. van Bibber, A. Diago, S. Matsuki, Hector Gomez, Marin Karuza, C. Eleftheriadis, Olivier Limousin, H. H. J. ten Kate, Eric Armengaud, T. Dafni, Finn Erland Christensen, I. Ortega, Pierre Sikivie, Anders Clemen Jakobsen, F.J. Iguaz, Charles J. Hailey, Diego González-Díaz, Theodoros Vafeiadis, Milica Krčmar, Takashi Hiramatsu, V. N. Muratova, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, J.A. Villar, S. C. Yildiz, Klaus Kurt Desch, I. Shilon, B. Döbrich, Javier Galan, J. G. Garza, Pierre Brun, A. Dael, S. Gninenko, F. T. Avignone, A. Tomás, W. C. Wester, C. Krieger, I. G. Irastorza, Masahiro Kawasaki, A. Lindner, A. Dudarev, Andreas Ringwald, Michael J. Pivovaroff, M. Betz, A. V. Derbin, P. Brax, C. Nones, D. Chelouche, Ioannis Giomataris, I. Savvidis, Yannis K. Semertzidis, S. Russenschuck, Kenichi Imai, Konstantin Zioutas, Theodoros Geralis, Serkant Ali Cetin, Giovanni Cantatore, Julia Vogel, Jordi Isern, H. Silva, E. Ferrer-Ribas, Ken'ichi Saikawa, G. Luzón, Dieter Horns, P. Vedrine, G. Fanourakis, Toyokazu Sekiguchi, Fritz Caspers, J. A. Garcia, Joerg Jaeckel, Amanda Weltman, J. Ruz, M. Davenport, J. Kaminski, L. Walckiers, Krešimir Jakovčić, Gianpaolo Carosi, A. Liolios, B. Gimeno, Georg G. Raffelt, T. Papaevangelou, J. M. Carmona, S. Caspi, Konstantinos Kousouris, I. Dratchnev, Sergey Troitsky, Doğuş Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Fizik Bölümü, TR3959, Çetin, Serkant Ali, Vogel, J. K., Armengaud, E., Avignone, F. T., Betz, M., Brax, P., Brun, P., Cantatore, Giovanni, Carmona, J. M., Carosi, G. P., Caspers, F., Caspi, S., Cetin, S. A., Chelouche, D., Christensen, F. E., Dael, A., Dafni, T., Davenport, M., Derbin, A. V., Desch, K., Diago, A., Döbrich, B., Dratchnev, I., Dudarev, A., Eleftheriadis, C., Fanourakis, G., Ferrer Ribas, E., Galán, J., García, J. A., Garza, J. G., Geralis, T., Gimeno, B., Giomataris, I., Gninenko, S., Gómez, H., González Díaz, D., Guendelman, E., Hailey, C. J., Hiramatsu, T., Hoffmann, D. H. H., Horns, D., Iguaz, F. J., Irastorza, I. G., Isern, J., Imai, K., Jakobsen, A. C., Jaeckel, J., Jakovčić, K., Kaminski, J., Kawasaki, M., Karuza, M., Krčmar, M., Kousouris, K., Krieger, C., Lakić, B., Limousin, O., Lindner, A., Liolios, A., Luzón, G., Matsuki, S., Muratova, V. N., Nones, C., Ortega, I., Papaevangelou, T., Pivovaroff, M. J., Raffelt, G., Redondo, J., Ringwald, A., Russenschuck, S., Ruz, J., Saikawa, K., Savvidis, I., Sekiguchi, T., Semertzidis, Y. K., Shilon, I., Sikivie, P., Silva, H., ten Kate, H., Tomas, A., Troitsky, S., Vafeiadis, T., van Bibber, K., Vedrine, P., Villar, J. A., Walckiers, L., Weltman, A., Wester, W., Yildiz, S. C., and Zioutas, K.

Subjects
QCD axion, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, Physics and Astronomy(all), 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, magnetic helioscope, High Energy Physics::Theory, QCD axions, Astroparticle Physics, Axion, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, dark matter, Dark Matter, ddc:530, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, 010306 general physics, Astroparticle physics, Physics, Helioscope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Axion Dark Matter Experiment, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Strong CP problem, IAXO, Strong CP Problem, ALP, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Particle Physics - Experiment, Helioscopes
Abstract

Çetin, Serkant Ali (Dogus Author) -- Conference full title: 13th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2013; Asilomar Conference Grounds Monterey Peninsula; United States; 8 September 2013 through 13 September 2013. The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a proposed 4th-generation axion helioscope with the primary physics research goal to search for solar axions via their Primakoff conversion into photons of 1 - 10 keV energies in a strong magnetic field. IAXO will achieve a sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling gaγ down to a few ×10-12 GeV-1 for a wide range of axion masses up to ∼ 0.25 eV. This is an improvement over the currently best (3rd generation) axion helioscope, the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST), of about 5 orders of magnitude in signal strength, corresponding to a factor ∼ 20 in the axion photon coupling. IAXO's sensitivity relies on the construction of a large superconducting 8-coil toroidal magnet of 20 m length optimized for axion research. Each of the eight 60 cm diameter magnet bores is equipped with x-ray optics focusing the signal photons into ∼ 0.2 cm2 spots that are imaged by very low background x-ray detectors. The magnet will be built into a structure with elevation and azimuth drives that will allow solar tracking for 12 hours each day. This contribution is a summary of our papers [1-3] and we refer to these for further details.

Published
2015
Full Text
View/download PDF

18. Retrospective analysis of the role and performance of family medicine versus emergency medical services in the pre-hospital management of patients with AMI in Banja Luka

Author

Maja Račić, Biljana Lakić, and Dusko Vulic

Subjects
Male, First medical contact, medicine.medical_specialty, Emergency Medical Services, Family medicine, Time Factors, Decision Making, Myocardial Infarction, Infarction, Acute myocardial infarction, Emergency medical services, Retrospective analysis, Medicine, Humans, Myocardial infarction, Referral and Consultation, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Service (business), lcsh:R5-920, business.industry, Retrospective cohort study, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Medical services, Emergency medicine, Female, Medical emergency, lcsh:Medicine (General), business, Family Practice
Abstract

Objective. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in pre-hospital care of patients with acute myocardial infarction between emergency medical services and family medicine. Patients and methods . This retrospective descriptive study included patients treated for acute myocardial infarction at the University Clinical Centre of Banja Luka, in the period from 1st January to 31st December 2011. The patients were divided into two groups: patients who received a hospital referral from the family medicine service and those who received one from the emergency medical service. Results . The majority of patients (54.8%) received pre-hospital care from emergency medical services, while in 24.8% of cases the care was provided by family medicine physicians. The analysis showed that the time that passed from the onset of symptoms to the visit to the health institution of first medical contact was shorter in the emergency medical service (p

Published
2015

19. New solar axion search using the CERN Axion Solar Telescope withHe4filling

Author

T. Papaevangelou, S. C. Yildiz, I. Savvidis, M. D. Hasinoff, Biljana Lakić, J. M. Carmona, I. Giomataris, A. Belov, Evangelos Gazis, T. O. Niinikoski, V. Burwitz, José Villar, L. Stewart, S. Neff, E. Da Riva, Theodoros Vafeiadis, J. Bremer, F.J. Iguaz, Ante Ljubičić, Dieter Hoffmann, Sami K. Solanki, M. Rosu, Markus Kuster, Sergei Gninenko, A. Tomás, T. Geralis, Krešimir Jakovčić, J. G. Garza, Joachim Jacoby, M. Gomez Marzoa, T. Dafni, Georgios Fanourakis, C. Eleftheriadis, M. Kavuk, M. J. Pivovaroff, Konstantin Zioutas, Julia Vogel, Heinrich Bräuninger, J. M. Laurent, Giovanni Cantatore, S. Aune, A. Liolios, Serkant Ali Cetin, K. Barth, G. Luzón, Milica Krčmar, M. Davenport, Marin Karuza, J. A. Garcia, I. Ortega, N. Elias, I. Shilon, Metin Arik, A. V. Dermenev, E. Georgiopoulou, Javier Galan, Georg G. Raffelt, I. G. Irastorza, J. Ruz, J. I. Collar, Adriane De Assis Lawisch Rodriguez, E. Ferrer-Ribas, A. Gardikiotis, and A. Nordt

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Photon, Dark matter, chemistry.chemical_element, Superconducting magnet, 7. Clean energy, chemistry, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Axion, Helium, Line (formation)
Abstract

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) searches for a -> gamma conversion in the 9 T magnetic field of a refurbished LHC test magnet that can be directed toward the Sun. Two parallel magnet bores can be filled with helium of adjustable pressure to match the x-ray refractive mass m(gamma) to the axion search mass m(a). After the vacuum phase (2003-2004), which is optimal for m(a) less than or similar to 0.02 eV, we used He-4 in 2005-2007 to cover the mass range of 0.02-0.39 eV and He-3 in 2009-2011 to scan from 0.39 to 1.17 eV. After improving the detectors and shielding, we returned to He-4 in 2012 to investigate a narrow m(a) range around 0.2 eV ("candidate setting" of our earlier search) and 0.39-0.42 eV, the upper axion mass range reachable with He-4, to "cross the axion line" for the KSVZ model. We have improved the limit on the axion-photon coupling to g(a gamma) < 1.47 x 10(-10) GeV-1 (95% C.L.), depending on the pressure settings. Since 2013, we have returned to the vacuum and aim for a significant increase in sensitivity.

Published
2015
Full Text
View/download PDF

20. Indirect signatures for axion(-like) particles

Author

Th. Papaevangelou, Dieter Hoffmann, S.E. Tzamarias, Biljana Lakić, S. Orlando, Yannis K. Semertzidis, Juhani Huovelin, Osmi Vilhu, Konstantin Zioutas, A. Ortiz, Konrad Dennerl, and Manuel Grande

Subjects
History, PVLAS, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Radiative decay, FOS: Physical sciences, Solar surface, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Education, Luminosity, High Energy Physics::Theory, Low energy, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Axion, Physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Computer Science Applications, Magnetic field, Physics::Space Physics, Particle
Abstract

Magnetic field dependent transient solar observations are suggestive for axion-photon oscillations with light axion(-like) particle involvement. Novel dark-moon measurements with the SMART X-ray detectors can be conclusive for radiatively decaying massive exotica like the generic solar Kaluza-Klein axions. Furthermore, the predicted intrinsic strong solar magnetic fields could be the reason of enhanced low energy axion production. Such an axion component could be the as yet unknown origin of the strong quiet Sun X-ray luminosity at energies below 1 keV. Solar axion telescopes should lower their threshold, aiming to copy processes that might occur near the solar surface, be it due to spontaneous or magnetically induced radiative decay of axion(-like) particles. This is motivated also by the recent claim of an axion-like particle detection by the laser experiment PVLAS., 9 pages, 2 Figures, TAUP2005 conf. proc. (extended version)

Published
2006
Full Text
View/download PDF

21. The cern axion solar telescope (CAST): an update

Author

J. M. Carmona, Thomas Papaevangelou, S. Aune, A. Liolios, M.L. Sarsa, A. Ortiz de Solórzano, Y. Semertzidis, J. Engelhauser, José Villar, R. Kotthaus, F. T. Avignone, B. Beltrán, Milica Krčmar, J. P. Robert, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, R. J. Creswick, J. Morales, Louis Walckiers, M. Delattre, A. Placci, W. Serber, A. Nikolaidis, Markus Kuster, K. Barth, G. Luzón, V. Arsov, D. Kang, A. Delbart, J. Franz, R. Hartmann, Ante Ljubičić, Efrain J. Ferrer, Georg G. Raffelt, Joachim Jacoby, Perikles Rammos, H. Bräuninger, F. H. Heinsius, J. N. Joux, Georgios Fanourakis, T. Geralis, A. Lippitsch, T. Aune, I. Giomataris, H. Fischer, C. Eleftheriadis, J. I. Collar, N. Golubev, E. Chesi, C. Lasseur, B. Vullierme, R. Deoliveira, M. Mutterer, M. D. Hasinoff, T. Dafni, S. Cebrián, H. A. Farach, Joaquin Vieira, A. Belov, G. Cipolla, I. G. Irastorza, M. Davenport, Gerhard Lutz, S. N. Gninenko, S. Dedousis, C. Schill, J. Ruz, Peter Friedrich, F. Formenti, Konstantin Zioutas, S. Andriamonje, K. Königsmann, A. Morales, Biljana Lakić, and L. DiLella

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Magnet, Sunrise, Astrophysics, Sunset, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Axion, Upper and lower bounds, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Abstract

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST), a 10 meter long LHC, 9 Tesla, test magnet is mounted on a moving platform that tracks the sun about 1.5 hours during sunrise, again during sunset. It moves ±8 0 vertically and ±40 0 horizontally. It has been taking data continuously since July 10, 2003. Data analyzed thus far yield an upper bound on the photon-axion coupling constant, g aγγ ⩽ 3 × 10 −10 GeV −1 for axion masses less than 5 × 10 −2 eV.

Published
2005
Full Text
View/download PDF

22. Search for chameleons with CAST

Author

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.

Subjects
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

Published
2015
Full Text
View/download PDF

23. The IAXO Helioscope

Author

I. Savvidis, I. G. Irastorza, I. Ortega, Toyokazu Sekiguchi, K Saikawa, M. Davenport, Serkant Ali Cetin, C. Eleftheriadis, C. Krieger, D. Chelouche, O. Limousin, Charles J. Hailey, P. Vedrine, G. Fanourakis, S. Caspi, Gianpaolo Carosi, Javier Redondo, A. Tomás, Ioannis Giomataris, Javier Galan, Hector Gomez, Pierre Sikivie, A.C. Jakobsen, S. Russenschuck, J. G. Garza, F.J. Iguaz, Kenichi Imai, K. van Bibber, Pierre Brun, Marin Karuza, A. Dael, Takashi Hiramatsu, S. Gninenko, A. Lindner, M. Betz, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, A. Liolios, Jochen Kaminski, E. Ferrer Ribas, Theodoros Geralis, V. N. Muratova, Julia Vogel, Yannis K. Semertzidis, Theodoros Vafeiadis, Babette Döbrich, Sergey Troitsky, G. Luzón, A. V. Derbin, D. González-Díaz, Michael J. Pivovaroff, F. T. Avignone, J. A. Garcia, Joerg Jaeckel, Amanda Weltman, W. C. Wester, Georg G. Raffelt, Masahiro Kawasaki, A. Dudarev, Andreas Ringwald, Krešimir Jakovčić, T. Dafni, Milica Krčmar, J.A. Villar, A. Diago, Eduardo Guendelman, Konstantin Zioutas, Dieter Horns, Klaus Kurt Desch, J. Ruz, J. M. Carmona, Giovanni Cantatore, Benito Gimeno, F.E. Christensen, P. Brax, T. Papaevangelou, L. Walckiers, Jordi Isern, Konstantinos Kousouris, I. Dratchnev, I. Shilon, Fritz Caspers, C. Nones, S. Matsuki, S. C. Yildiz, Biljana Lakić, H. H. J. ten Kate, E. Armengaud, H. Silva, Ribas, E. Ferrer, Armengaud, E., Avignone, F. T., Betz, M., Brax, P., Brun, P., Cantatore, Giovanni, Carmona, J. M., Carosi, G. P., Caspers, F., Caspi, S., Cetin, S. A., Chelouche, D., Christensen, F. E., Dael, A., Dafni, T., Davenport, M., Derbin, A. V., Desch, K., Diago, A., Döbrich, B., Dratchnev, I., Dudarev, A., Eleftheriadis, C., Fanourakis, G., Galán, J., García, J. A., Garza, J. G., Geralis, T., Gimeno, B., Giomataris, I., Gninenko, S., Gómez, H., González Diaz, D., Guendelman, E., Hailey, C. J., Hiramatsu, T., Hoffmann, D. H. H., Horns, D., Iguaz, F. J., Irastorza, I. G., Isern, J., Imai, K., Jaeckel, J., Jakobsen, A. C., Jakovčić, K., Kaminski, J., Kawasaki, M., Karuza, M., Krčmar, M., Kousouris, K., Krieger, C., Lakić, B., Limousin, O., Lindner, A., Liolios, A., Luzón, G., Matsuki, S., Muratova, V. N., Nones, C., Ortega, I., Papaevangelou, T., Pivovaroff, M. J., Raffelt, G., Redondo, J., Ringwald, A., Russenschuck, S., Ruz, J., Saikawa, K., Savvidis, I., Sekiguchi, T., Semertzidis, Y. K., Shilon, I., Sikivie, P., Silva, H., Ten Kate, H. H. J., Tomas, A., Troitsky, S., Vafeiadis, T., Van Bibber, K., Vedrine, P., Villar, J. A., Vogel, J. K., Walckiers, L., Weltman, A., Wester, W., Yildiz, S. C., Zioutas, K., Doğuş Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Fizik Bölümü, TR3959, and Çetin, Serkant Ali

Subjects
History, Particle physics, QCD axion, Dark matter, X-ray optics, Detectable Signal, 7. Clean energy, magnetic helioscope, dark matter, Education, Solar tracker, Optics, QCD axions, ddc:530, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Axion, Physics, Helioscope, Fourth Generation, business.industry, Technical Design, Detector, MicroMegas detector, Toroidal Magnets, Low Background Detectors, Computer Science Applications, Magnet, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, Feasibility Studies, X-ray Focusing Optics, business
Abstract

Çetin, Serkant Ali (Dogus Author) -- Conference full title: 7th International Symposium on Large TPCs for Low-Energy Rare Event Detection; Institute of Astroparticle Physics (APC) Campus - Paris Diderot UniversityParis; France; 15 December 2014 through 17 December 2014 The IAXO (International Axion Experiment) is a fourth generation helioscope with a sensitivity, in terms of detectable signal counts, at least 104 better than CAST phase-I, resulting in sensitivity on gaγ one order of magnitude better. To achieve this performance IAXO will count on a 8-coil toroidal magnet with 60 cm diameter bores and equipped with X-ray focusing optics into 0.20 cm2 spots coupled to ultra-low background Micromegas X-ray detectors. The magnet will be on a platform that will allow solar tracking for 12 hours per day. The next short term objectives are to prepare a Technical Design Report and to construct the first prototypes of the hardware main ingredients: demonstration coil, X-ray optics and low background detector while refining the physics case and studying the feasibility studies for Dark Matter axions.

Published
2015
Full Text
View/download PDF

24. Search for Solar Axions by the CERN Axion Solar Telescope withHe3Buffer Gas: Closing the Hot Dark Matter Gap

Author

M. Tsagri, T. Guthörl, M. Gomez Marzoa, S. C. Yildiz, J. G. Garza, T. Dafni, M. Davenport, S. Borghi, J. M. Laurent, M. D. Hasinoff, Steffen Hauf, N. Elias, P. S. Silva, Sami K. Solanki, S. Aune, Joachim Jacoby, Markus Kuster, Evangelos Gazis, T. Vafeiadis, F.J. Iguaz, P. M. Lang, E. Da Riva, Peter Friedrich, A. Liolios, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, Georg G. Raffelt, T. O. Niinikoski, Georgios Fanourakis, M. J. Pivovaroff, Konstantin Zioutas, A. Nordt, C. Eleftheriadis, Ioannis Giomataris, Heinrich Bräuninger, J. Ruz, T. Geralis, Serkant Ali Cetin, Milica Krčmar, K. Königsmann, G. Cantatore, Ante Ljubičić, J. I. Collar, Biljana Lakić, T. Papaevangelou, J. M. Carmona, I. Savvidis, K. van Bibber, S. Neff, A. Tomás, E. Georgiopoulou, S. N. Gninenko, M. Arik, E. Gruber, A. Belov, Javier Galan, Rainer Kotthaus, F. Haug, A Rodríguez, L. Stewart, J. A. Garcia, Hector Gomez, Marin Karuza, E. Ferrer-Ribas, I. G. Irastorza, H. Riege, A. Gardikiotis, Raimo Hartmann, Julia Vogel, K. Barth, G. Luzón, Krešimir Jakovčić, M. Rosu, I. Shilon, and José Villar

Subjects
Physics, Helioscope, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Axion Dark Matter Experiment, Hot dark matter, Buffer gas, Dark matter, General Physics and Astronomy, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Axion
Abstract

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope has finished its search for solar axions with He-3 buffer gas, covering the search range 0.64 eV less than or similar to ma less than or similar to 1.17 eV. This closes the gap to the cosmological hot dark matter limit and actually overlaps with it. From the absence of excess x rays when the magnet was pointing to the Sun we set a typical upper limit on the axion-photon coupling of g(a gamma) less than or similar to 3.3 x 10(-10) GeV-1 at 95% C.L., with the exact value depending on the pressure setting. Future direct solar axion searches will focus on increasing the sensitivity to smaller values of g(a gamma), for example by the currently discussed next generation helioscope International AXion Observatory.

Published
2014
Full Text
View/download PDF

25. First results from the CAST experiment

Author

A. Liolios, D. Autiero, H. Riege, Louis Walckiers, B. Beltrán, Markus Kuster, D. Kang, N. Goloubev, Joachim Jacoby, K. Barth, G. Luzón, M.L. Sarsa, T. Dafni, J. Morales, A. Placci, I. Savvidis, Heinrich Bräuninger, Milica Krčmar, S. Aune, H. Fischer, W. Serber, I. G. Irastorza, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, Yannis K. Semertzidis, L. Di Lella, Ante Ljubičić, E. Chesi, Peter Friedrich, V. Arsov, S. N. Gninenko, Konstantin Zioutas, T. Geralis, Pasquale D. Serpico, M. Davenport, Jakob Englhauser, J. Franz, Joaquin Vieira, David Miller, S. Cebrián, I. Giomataris, C. Eleftheriadis, G. Lutz, Biljana Lakić, Thomas Papaevangelou, S. Andriamonje, José Villar, A. Morales, K. Königsmann, J. I. Collar, C. Lasseur, A. Belov, Rainer Kotthaus, J. Ruz, Konstantinos Kousouris, L. Stewart, Georg G. Raffelt, M. D. Hasinoff, F. H. Heinsius, Georgios Fanourakis, J. M. Carmona, A. Ortiz, and Efrain J. Ferrer

Subjects
Coupling, Physics, History, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Transverse field, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Buffer gas, Phase (waves), Computer Science Applications, Education, Nuclear physics, Magnet, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Axion
Abstract

The CAST Experiment commenced its first phase of solar axion-searching in 2003, and ran successfully for two years. In the transverse field of a decommissioned Large Hadron Collider (LHC) test magnet (9.26m, 9T), the CERN Axion Solar Telescope intends to transform axions -that would be produced in the sun- into X-rays with energies of a few keV. The first results from the analysis of the data taken in 2003 show no signature of axions, implying an upper limit to the axion-photon coupling gaγ ≤ 1.16 × 10−10 GeV−1 at 95% C.L. for ma < 0.02 eV, already a factor 100 better than previous searches. In Phase I the twin bores of the magnet were kept in vacuum. In Phase II (due to start in November 2005) the bores of the magnet will be filled with a buffer gas, which will allow CAST to explore the region of higher axion masses.

Published
2006
Full Text
View/download PDF

26. Conceptual design of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO)

Author

A. Liolios, P. Vedrine, G. Fanourakis, Doron Chelouche, Klaus Kurt Desch, Serkant Ali Cetin, I. G. Irastorza, Konstantin Zioutas, Gianpaolo Carosi, Javier Redondo, I. Dratchnev, Ken'ichi Saikawa, Ioannis Giomataris, B. Gimeno, Pierre Brun, Eduardo Guendelman, A. Dael, B. Döbrich, S. Gninenko, E. Ferrer-Ribas, C. Krieger, L. Walckiers, J. Ruz, J. A. García, S. Matsuki, Milica Krčmar, I. Shilon, S. Russenschuck, Kenichi Imai, J.A. Villar, I. Ortega, A. Diago, J. Galán, Sergey Troitsky, V. N. Muratova, Joerg Jaeckel, I. Savvidis, Ph. Brax, Amanda Weltman, H. Silva, C. Nones, Charles J. Hailey, Haley Louise Gomez, Dieter Horns, K. van Bibber, Krešimir Jakovčić, S. C. Yildiz, Olivier Limousin, Jordi Isern, Finn Erland Christensen, T. Vafeiadis, William Wester, C. Eleftheriadis, Michael J. Pivovaroff, Theodoros Geralis, Biljana Lakić, Julia Vogel, A. Dudarev, Andreas Ringwald, Fritz Caspers, A. V. Derbin, K. Kousouris, G. Luzón, T. Papaevangelou, J. M. Carmona, J. Kaminski, Anders Clemen Jakobsen, H. H. J. ten Kate, T. Dafni, A. Lindner, M. Betz, Georg G. Raffelt, Marin Karuza, S. Caspi, Masahiro Kawasaki, Giovanni Cantatore, Eric Armengaud, J. G. Garza, F.J. Iguaz, F. T. Avignone, A. Tomás, T. Sekiguchi, M. Davenport, Pierre Sikivie, Takashi Hiramatsu, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, Diego González-Díaz, Yannis K. Semertzidis, Doğuş Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Fizik Bölümü, TR3959, Çetin, Serkant Ali, Armengaud, E., Avignone, F. T., Betz, M., Brax, P., Brun, P., Cantatore, Giovanni, Carmona, J. M., Carosi, G. P., Caspers, F., Caspi, S., Cetin, S. A., Chelouche, D., Christensen, F. E., Dael, A., Dafni, T., Davenport, M., Derbin, A. V., Desch, K., Diago, A., Döbrich, B., Dratchnev, I., Dudarev, A., Eleftheriadis, C., Fanourakis, G., Ferrer Ribas, E., Galán, J., García, J. A., Garza, J. G., Geralis, T., Gimeno, B., Giomataris, I., Gninenko, S., Gómez, H., Gonźlez Díaz, D., Guendelman, E., Hailey, C. J., Hiramatsu, T., Hoffmann, D. H. H., Horns, D., Iguaz, F. J., Irastorza, I. G, Isern, J., Imai, K., Jakobsen, A. C., Jaeckel, J., Jakovčić, K., Kaminski, J., Kawasaki, M., Karuza, M., Krčmar, M., Kousouris, K., Krieger, C., Lakić, B., Limousin, O., Lindner, A., Liolios, A., Luzón, G., Matsuki, S., Muratova, V. N., Nones, C., Ortega, I., Papaevangelou, T., Pivovaroff, M. J., Raffelt, G., Redondo, J., Ringwald, A., Russenschuck, S., Ruz, J., Saikawa, K., Savvidis, I., Sekiguchi, T., Semertzidis, Y. K., Shilon, I., Sikivie, P., Silva, H., Kate, H. Ten, Tomas, A., Troitsky, S., Vafeiadis, T., Bibber, K. Van, Vedrine, P., Villar, J. A., Vogel, J. K., Walckiers, L., Weltman, A., Wester, W., Yildiz, S. C., and Zioutas, K.

Subjects
MICROPIC, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Photon, axions, Parameter space, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, axions, etc.), High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Observatory, etc.), Micropattern gaseous detectors (MSGC, GEM, THGEM, RETHGEM, MHSP, MICROPIC, MICROMEGAS, InGrid, etc), Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Physics, GEM, solar [axion], Dark Matter Detectors (Wimps, Axions, etc.), MicroMegas detector, X-ray detectors, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics, solar, observatory, MICROMEGAS, MHSP, axion-like particles, proposed experiment, dark matter detectors, x-ray detectors, Micropattern gaseous detectors, large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics, Micromegas, X-ray detector, Particle physics, optics [X-ray], FOS: Physical sciences, Superconducting magnet, Micropattern gaseous detectors (MSGC, ddc:610, Axion, activity report, Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, superconductivity [magnet], etc), Helioscope, sensitivity, InGrid, RETHGEM, Orders of magnitude (time), axion, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physic, THGEM, Micropattern Gaseous Detectors (MSGC, Gem, THGEM, Rethgem, MHSP, Micropic, Micromegas, In Grid
Abstract

The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) will be a forth generation axion helioscope. As its primary physics goal, IAXO will look for axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) originating in the Sun via the Primakoff conversion of the solar plasma photons. In terms of signal-to-noise ratio, IAXO will be about 4-5 orders of magnitude more sensitive than CAST, currently the most powerful axion helioscope, reaching sensitivity to axion-photon couplings down to a few $\times 10^{-12}$ GeV$^{-1}$ and thus probing a large fraction of the currently unexplored axion and ALP parameter space. IAXO will also be sensitive to solar axions produced by mechanisms mediated by the axion-electron coupling $g_{ae}$ with sensitivity $-$for the first time$-$ to values of $g_{ae}$ not previously excluded by astrophysics. With several other possible physics cases, IAXO has the potential to serve as a multi-purpose facility for generic axion and ALP research in the next decade. In this paper we present the conceptual design of IAXO, which follows the layout of an enhanced axion helioscope, based on a purpose-built 20m-long 8-coils toroidal superconducting magnet. All the eight 60cm-diameter magnet bores are equipped with focusing x-ray optics, able to focus the signal photons into $\sim 0.2$ cm$^2$ spots that are imaged by ultra-low-background Micromegas x-ray detectors. The magnet is built into a structure with elevation and azimuth drives that will allow for solar tracking for $\sim$12 h each day., Comment: 47 pages, submitted to JINST

Published
2014
Full Text
View/download PDF

27. CAST constraints on the axion-electron coupling

Author

M. D. Hassinoff, Joaquin Vieira, G. Lutz, Krešimir Jakovčić, Javier Redondo, K. Königsmann, J. A. Garcia, H. Fischer, J. M. Carmona, I. G. Irastorza, Julia Vogel, Biljana Lakić, Dieter Hoffmann, K. Barth, G. Luzón, Javier Galan, C. Eleftheriadis, A. Liolios, J. Franz, I. Giomataris, H. Riege, K. van Bibber, D. Kang, Milica Krčmar, David Miller, J.A. Villar, L. Stewart, E. Ferrer Ribas, B. Beltrán, M. Davenport, Peter Friedrich, Heinrich Bräuninger, M. J. Pivovaroff, Konstantin Zioutas, Adriane De Assis Lawisch Rodriguez, T. Papaevangelou, L. Di Lella, Jakob Englhauser, F. H. Heinsius, Georgios Fanourakis, Sergei Gninenko, Konstantinos Kousouris, Yannis K. Semertzidis, J. Ruz, Joachim Jacoby, T. Geralis, Hector Gomez, T. Dafni, Louis Walckiers, Markus Kuster, Ante Ljubičić, I. Savvidis, Georg G. Raffelt, A. Belov, Rainer Kotthaus, and J. I. Collar

Subjects
Particle physics, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, pacs:97.10.Me, Astrophysics, Electron, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics::Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, pacs:14.80.Mz, Axion, axions, dark matter experiments, solar physics, white and brown dwarfs, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Coupling, Physics, Helioscope, pacs:97.20.Rp, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Compton scattering, Bremsstrahlung, Yukawa potential, Astronomy and Astrophysics, pacs:97.10.Ld, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract

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 axio-recombination, 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 g_ae and axion-photon interaction strength g_ag using the CAST phase-I data (vacuum phase). For m_a < 10 meV/c2 we find g_ag x g_ae< 8.1 x 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. 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 axio-recombination, 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(γ) using the CAST phase-I data (vacuum phase). For malesssim10 meV/c(2) we find ga(γ) gae

Published
2013

28. Future axion searches with the International Axion Observatory (IAXO)

Author

C. Krieger, A. Lindner, Javier Redondo, Biljana Lakić, L. Walckiers, Pierre Sikivie, Joerg Jaeckel, A. Tomás, Ioannis Giomataris, Iratxe Ortega, K Saikawa, Hector Gomez, Jochen Kaminski, Takashi Hiramatsu, F.J. Iguaz, H. H. J. ten Kate, Milica Krčmar, Anders Clemen Jakobsen, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, F. T. Avignone, Theodoros Vafeiadis, Krešimir Jakovčić, H. Silva, J.A. Villar, Javier Galan, B. Döbrich, I. Shilon, C. J. Hailey, Jordi Isern, J. G. Garza, A. Diago, Michael J. Pivovaroff, Konstantin Zioutas, S. C. Yildiz, W. C. Wester, Theodoros Geralis, S. Caspi, A. Dael, S. Gninenko, Julia Vogel, K. van Bibber, Toyokazu Sekiguchi, G. Luzón, M. Davenport, Georg G. Raffelt, Finn Erland Christensen, Sergey Troitsky, J. Ruz, Masahiro Kawasaki, Giovanni Cantatore, A. V. Derbin, A. Liolios, C. Eleftheriadis, Dieter Horns, B. Gimeno, T. Papaevangelou, J. M. Carmona, A. Dudarev, Eduardo Guendelman, Andreas Ringwald, Serkant Ali Cetin, I. G. Irastorza, P. Vedrine, G. Fanourakis, I. Savvidis, T. Dafni, S. Russenschuck, E. Ferrer-Ribas, Klaus Kurt Desch, J. A. Garcia, Doğuş Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Fizik Bölümü, TR3959, Çetin, Serkant Ali, I. G., Irastorza, F. T., Avignone, Cantatore, Giovanni, J. M., Carmona, S., Caspi, S. A., Cetin, F. E., Christensen, A., Dael, T., Dafni, M., Davenport, A. V., Derbin, K., Desch, A., Diago, B., Döbrich, A., Dudarev, C., Eleftheriadi, G., Fanouraki, E., Ferrer Riba, J., Galán, J. A., García, J. G., Garza, T., Gerali, B., Gimeno, I., Giomatari, S., Gninenko, H., Gómez, E., Guendelman, C. J., Hailey, T., Hiramatsu, D. H. H., Hoffmann, D., Horn, F. J., Iguaz, J., Isern, A. C., Jakobsen, J., Jaeckel, K., Jakovčić, J., Kaminski, M., Kawasaki, M., Krčmar, C., Krieger, B., Lakić, A., Lindner, A., Liolio, G., Luzón, I., Ortega, T., Papaevangelou, M. J., Pivovaroff, G., Raffelt, J., Redondo, A., Ringwald, S., Russenschuck, J., Ruz, K., Saikawa, I., Savvidi, T., Sekiguchi, I., Shilon, P., Sikivie, H., Silva, H., ten Kate, A., Toma, S., Troitsky, T., Vafeiadi, K., van Bibber, P., Vedrine, J. A., Villar, J. K., Vogel, L., Walckier, W., Wester, S. C., Yildiz, and K., Zioutas

Subjects
Physics, History, Particle physics, solar axion, Orders of Magnitude, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Rare event detection, Single photon detectors, Low Background Detectors, 01 natural sciences, dark matter, White Dwarfs, Computer Science Applications, Education, Low energy, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, solar axions, ddc:530, X-ray Focusing Optics, 010306 general physics, Axion
Abstract

Çetin, Serkant Ali (Dogus Author) -- Conference full title: 6th Symposium on Large TPCs for Low Energy Rare Event Detection; Paris; France; 17 December 2012 through 19 December 2012. The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a new generation axion helioscope aiming at a sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling of gaγ ∼ few × 10-12 GeV-1, i.e. 1-1.5 orders of magnitude beyond the one achieved by CAST, currently the most sensitive axion helioscope. The main elements of IAXO are an increased 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 explain the white dwarf cooling, 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.

Published
2013
Full Text
View/download PDF

29. Status and perspectives of the CAST experiment

Author

Biljana Lakić, José Villar, C. Ezer, J. I. Collar, T. Dafni, S. Borghi, Giovanni Cantatore, T. Geralis, F.J. Iguaz, S. C. Yildiz, Theodoros Vafeiadis, M. Davenport, S. N. Gninenko, J. Ruz, Sami K. Solanki, Evangelos Gazis, M. Rosu, Georgios Fanourakis, Hector Gomez, Joachim Jacoby, Georg G. Raffelt, G. Lutz, Julia Vogel, Marin Karuza, Markus Kuster, K. Barth, G. Luzón, A. Liolios, A. Gardikiotis, Timur Rashba, A. Belov, S. Aune, T. Papaevangelou, E. Ferrer-Ribas, N. Elias, F. Haug, M. D. Hasinoff, Peter Friedrich, M Tsagri, I. Savvidis, Raimo Hartmann, H. Riege, Rainer Kotthaus, T. O. Niinikoski, J. M. Carmona, I. G. Irastorza, M. J. Pivovaroff, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, A Rodríguez, Konstantin Zioutas, J. Morales, E. Gruber, J. A. Garcia, Krešimir Jakovčić, V. Lozza, K. Königsmann, L. Stewart, I. Giomataris, C. Eleftheriadis, A. Nordt, J. M. Laurent, A. Tomás, P. S. Silva, M. Arik, Ante Ljubičić, Javier Galan, Heinrich Bräuninger, Milica Krčmar, Serkant Ali Cetin, T. Guthörl, K. van Bibber, Doğuş Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Fizik Bölümü, TR144760, Arık, Metin, B., Lakić, M., Arik, S., Aune, K., Barth, A., Belov, S., Borghi, H., Bräuninger, Cantatore, Giovanni, J. M., Carmona, S. A., Cetin, J. I., Collar, T., Dafni, M., Davenport, C., Eleftheriadi, N., Elia, C., Ezer, G., Fanouraki, E., Ferrer Riba, P., Friedrich, J., Galán, J. A., García, A., Gardikioti, E. N., Gazi, T., Gerali, I., Giomatari, S., Gninenko, H., Gómez, E., Gruber, T., Guthörl, R., Hartmann, F., Haug, M. D., Hasinoff, D. H. H., Hoffmann, F. J., Iguaz, I. G., Irastorza, J., Jacoby, K., Jakovčić, M., Karuza, K., Königsmann, R., Kotthau, M., Krčmar, M., Kuster, J. M., Laurent, A., Liolio, A., Ljubičić, V., Lozza, G., Lutz, G., Luzón, J., Morale, T., Niinikoski, A., Nordt, T., Papaevangelou, M. J., Pivovaroff, G., Raffelt, T., Rashba, H., Riege, A., Rodríguez, M., Rosu, J., Ruz, I., Savvidi, P. S., Silva, S. K., Solanki, L., Stewart, A., Tomá, M., Tsagri, K., van Bibber, T., Vafeiadi, J., Villar, J. K., Vogel, S. C., Yildiz, and K., Zioutas

Subjects
History, Particle physics, solar axion, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Education, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics::Theory, Phase I, Solar core, 0103 physical sciences, Buffer Gas, 010306 general physics, CERN Axion Solar Telescopes, Axion, Coupling constant, Physics, Coupling Constants, Helioscope, Various Densities, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Axion Dark Matter Experiment, X-Rays, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Single photon detectors, Phase II, axions, solar physics, dark matter, Computer Science Applications, solar axions, Magnet, X-Ray, CERN Axion Solar Telescope
Abstract

Arık, Metin (Dogus Author) -- The conference paper was firstly submitted to 12th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics. The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is currently the most sensitive axion helioscope designed to search for axions produced by the Primakoff process in the solar core. CAST is using a Large Hadron Collider (LHC) test magnet where axions could be converted into X-rays with energies up to 10 keV. During the phase I, the experiment operated with vacuum inside the magnet bores and covered axion masses up to 0.02 eV. In the phase II, the magnet bores were filled with a buffer gas (first 4He and later 3He) at various densities in order to extend the sensitivity to higher axion masses (up to f .18 eV). The phase II data taking was completed in 2011. So far, no evidence of axion signal has been found and CAST set the most restrictive experimental limit on the axion-photon coupling constant over a broad range of axion masses. The latest CAST results with 3He data in the mass range 0.39 eV < m a < 0.64 eV will be presented.

Published
2012
Full Text
View/download PDF

30. The cern axion solar telescope (CAST)

Author

Milica Krčmar, J.A. Villar, W.K. Pitts, M.L. Sarsa, C. Fiorini, M. Sampieto, R. J. Creswick, M.A. Knopf, R. Kotthaus, L. Walckiers, A. Placci, J. Jacoby, B. Villierme, N. Erdutan, A. Liolios, A. Delbart, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, Konstantin Zioutas, I. Savvidis, M. Stipcevic, Nikolai Golubev, K. Zachariadou, T.A. Girard, J. Morales, S.M. Bowyer, V. E. Postoev, H. Bräuninger, Fabien Jeanneau, M. Mutterer, M. Delattre, A. Nikolaidis, V. A. Matveev, C. Eleftheriadis, Georgios Fanourakis, A. Ortiz, I. G. Irastorza, Ante Ljubičić, Harry S. Miley, J. M. Carmona, W. Wilcox, A.V. Kovzelev, Theodoros Geralis, D. Autiero, K. Barth, A. Morales, L. DiLella, Z. Krecak, G. Luzón, R.C. Thompson, Biljana Lakić, Ronald L. Brodzinski, Georg G. Raffelt, H. Riege, Ioannis Giomataris, A. Mailov, M. D. Hasinoff, J. I. Collar, E. Arik, P. Valco, S. Gninenko, S. Cebrián, Gerhard Lutz, R. De Oliveira, Shmuel Nussinov, A. Longoni, C.W. Thomas, F. T. Avignone, Craig E. Aalseth, G. Celebi, H. A. Farach, and Serkant Ali Cetin

Subjects
Coupling, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Magnet, Astronomy, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Axion, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Abstract

A decommissioned LHC test magnet is being prepared as the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) experiment. The magnet has a field of 9.6 Tesla and length of 10 meters. It is being mounted on a platform to track the sun over ±8° vertically and ±45°, horizontally. A sensitivity in axion-photon coupling gαγγ < 5 × 10−11GeV−1 can be reached for mα ≤ 10−2eV, and with a gas filled tube-can reach gαγγ ≤ 10−10GeV−1 for axion masses mα < 2eV.

Published
2002
Full Text
View/download PDF

31. Search for Sub-eV Mass Solar Axions by the CERN Axion Solar Telescope withHe3Buffer Gas

Author

K. Königsmann, T. Dafni, J. M. Laurent, Joachim Jacoby, Sergei Gninenko, Milica Krčmar, Ante Ljubičić, Biljana Lakić, Hector Gomez, F. Haug, Marin Karuza, Evangelos Gazis, T. Guthörl, C. Eleftheriadis, H. Riege, J. Morales, A. Liolios, N. Elias, Heinrich Bräuninger, José Villar, Serkant Ali Cetin, G. Lutz, S. Aune, A. Tomás, A. Nordt, V. Lozza, M. Arik, T. Geralis, I. Giomataris, K. van Bibber, T. Papaevangelou, I. Savvidis, Javier Galan, Dieter Hoffmann, M. Tsagri, J. Ruz, Sami K. Solanki, J. A. Garcia, M. Rosu, Markus Kuster, Krešimir Jakovčić, T. O. Niinikoski, Peter Friedrich, P. S. Silva, M. J. Pivovaroff, Konstantin Zioutas, A. Gardikiotis, M. Davenport, Raimo Hartmann, Julia Vogel, J. I. Collar, Theodoros Vafeiadis, K. Barth, G. Luzón, Adriane De Assis Lawisch Rodriguez, E. Ferrer-Ribas, C. Ezer, A. Belov, Rainer Kotthaus, L. Stewart, I. G. Irastorza, Georg G. Raffelt, Georgios Fanourakis, S. C. Yildiz, Timur Rashba, M. D. Hasinoff, J. M. Carmona, E. Gruber, S. Borghi, Giovanni Cantatore, and F.J. Iguaz

Subjects
Physics, Helioscope, Particle physics, Solar energetic particles, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Hot dark matter, Dark matter, General Physics and Astronomy, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Massless particle, 0103 physical sciences, Strong CP problem, 010306 general physics, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Axion
Abstract

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) has extended its search for solar axions by using (3)He as a buffer gas. At T=1.8 K this allows for larger pressure settings and hence sensitivity to higher axion masses than our previous measurements with (4)He. With about 1 h of data taking at each of 252 different pressure settings we have scanned the axion mass range 0.39 eV≲m(a)≲0.64 eV. From the absence of excess x rays when the magnet was pointing to the Sun we set a typical upper limit on the axion-photon coupling of g(aγ)≲2.3×10(-10) GeV(-1) at 95% C.L., the exact value depending on the pressure setting. Kim-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov axions are excluded at the upper end of our mass range, the first time ever for any solar axion search. In the future we will extend our search to m(a)≲1.15 eV, comfortably overlapping with cosmological hot dark matter bounds.

Published
2011
Full Text
View/download PDF

32. Latest results and prospects of the CERN Axion Solar Telescope

Author

I. Giomataris, C. Eleftheriadis, T. Guthörl, S. C. Yildiz, José Villar, A. Tomás, G Lutz, I. G. Irastorza, F.J. Iguaz, Georgios Fanourakis, Biljana Lakić, L. Stewart, Javier Galan, S. Aune, Hector Gomez, J. M. Carmona, Marin Karuza, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, V. Lozza, Milica Krčmar, Ante Ljubičić, K. Königsmann, M. Davenport, Theodoros Vafeiadis, E. Gruber, J. M. Laurent, Joachim Jacoby, S. Borghi, F. Haug, Timur Rashba, T. Papaevangelou, M. Tsagri, M. D. Hasinoff, I. Savvidis, Heinrich Bräuninger, P. S. Silva, M. Rosu, Peter Friedrich, M. J. Pivovaroff, Serkant Ali Cetin, T. Geralis, Konstantin Zioutas, T. O. Niinikoski, Giovanni Cantatore, S. N. Gninenko, K. van Bibber, A. Gardikiotis, Raimo Hartmann, J. Ruz, A. Liolios, N. Elias, Sami K. Solanki, Markus Kuster, A Nordt, E. Ferrer-Ribas, Julia Vogel, K. Barth, G. Luzón, H. Riege, C. Ezer, T. Dafni, A Rodríguez, Krešimir Jakovčić, Evangelos Gazis, Georg G. Raffelt, Regina Soufli, A. Belov, J. Morales, Rainer Kotthaus, J. I. Collar, I. G., Irastorza, S., Aune, K., Barth, A., Belov, S., Borghi, H., Bräuninger, Cantatore, Giovanni, J. M., Carmona, S. A., Cetin, J. I., Collar, T., Dafni, M., Davenport, C., Eleftheriadi, N., Elia, C., Ezer, G., Fanouraki, E., Ferrer Riba, P., Friedrich, J., Galán, A., Gardikioti, E. N., Gazi, T., Gerali, I., Giomatari, S., Gninenko, H., Gómez, E., Gruber, T., Guthörl, R., Hartmann, F., Haug, M. D., Hasinoff, D. H. H., Hoffmann, F. J., Iguaz, J., Jacoby, K., Jakovčić, M., Karuza, K., Königsmann, R., Kotthau, M., Krčmar, M., Kuster, B., Lakić, J. M., Laurent, A., Liolio, A., Ljubičić, Lozza, Valentina, G., Lutz, G., Luzón, J., Morale, T., Niinikoski, A., Nordt, T., Papaevangelou, M. J., Pivovaroff, G., Raffelt, T., Rashba, H., Riege, A., Rodríguez, M., Rosu, J., Ruz, I., Savvidi, P. S., Silva, S. K., Solanki, R., Soufli, L., Stewart, A., Tomá, M., Tsagri, Bibber, K. v. a. n., T., Vafeiadi, J., Villar, J. K., Vogel, S. C., Yildiz, K., Zioutas, Doğuş Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Fizik Bölümü, TR3959, Çetin, Serkant Ali, Ezer, C., and Yıldız, Süleyman Cenk

Subjects
History, Particle physics, axions, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, dark matter, Education, Phase I, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, CERN Axion Solar Telescopes, Axion, Primakoff effect, solar physics, Physics, High Magnetic Fields, Helioscope, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Axion Dark Matter Experiment, solar physic, Solar physics, Computer Science Applications, ddc, axion, CERN Axion Solar Telescope
Abstract

Çetin, Serkant Ali (Dogus Author) -- Ezer, C. (Dogus Author) -- Yıldız, Süleyman Cenk (Dogus Author) The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) experiment searches for axions from the Sun converted into few keV photons via the inverse Primakoff effect in the high magnetic field of a superconducting Large Hadron Collider (LHC) decommissioned test magnet. After results obtained with vacuum in the magnet pipes (phase I of the experiment) as well as with 4He the collaboration is now immersed in the data taking with 3He, to be finished in 2011. The status of the experiment will be presented, including a preliminary exclusion plot of the first 3He data. CAST is currently sensitive to realistic QCD axion models at the sub-eV scale, and with axion-photon couplings down to the ∼ 2 × 10-10 GeV -1, compatible with solar life limits. Future plans include revisiting vaccuum and 4He configurations with improved sensitivity, as well as possible additional search for non-standard signals from chamaleons, paraphotons or other WISPs. For the longer term, we study the feasibility of an altogether improved version of the axion helioscope concept, with a jump in sensitivity of about one order of magnitude in gaγ beyond CAST.

Published
2011

33. Axions and Large Extra Dimensions

Author

Milica Krčmar, Biljana Lakić, and Raul Horvat

Subjects
Quantum chromodynamics, Physics, Particle physics, Compactification (physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Hierarchy problem, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Large extra dimension, 010306 general physics, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Axion
Abstract

Theories including extra space dimensions offer a possible solution to the hierarchy problem of particle physics. An additional effect of these theories is the possibility for axions to propagate in the higher-dimensional space. We explore the potential of the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) for testing the presence of large extra dimensions.

Published
2008

34. Search for Solar Axions: CAST

Author

M. Davenport, R. Hartmann, L. Stewart, Joachim Jacoby, D. Kang, F. H. Heinsius, J. Ruz, M.L. Sarsa, Georgios Fanourakis, Jakob Englhauser, Heinrich Bräuninger, K. Königsmann, J. M. Carmona, S. Aune, J. I. Collar, C. Lasseur, I. G. Irastorza, José Villar, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, Joaquin Vieira, S. Andriamonje, Pasquale D. Serpico, Peter Friedrich, Konstantin Zioutas, V. Arsov, G. Lutz, H. Fischer, F. T. Avignone, A. Liolios, K. Zachariadou, R. J. Creswick, Konstantinos Kousouris, M. D. Hasinoff, H. A. Farach, Thomas Papaevangelou, A. Belov, S. Cebrián, K. Barth, G. Luzón, Sergei Gninenko, Rainer Kotthaus, J. Franz, Milica Krčmar, Efrain J. Ferrer, B. Beltrán, A. Placci, L. Di Lella, Ante Ljubičić, Georg G. Raffelt, C. Eleftheriadis, T. Geralis, N. Goloubev, J. Morales, Yannis K. Semertzidis, A. Ortiz, I. Savvidis, Louis Walckiers, Markus Kuster, Biljana Lakić, E. Chesi, David Miller, I. Giomataris, T. Dafni, D. Autiero, A. Morales, and H. Riege

Subjects
Physics, Coupling constant, Particle physics, Magnet, Hadron, Axion
Published
2007
Full Text
View/download PDF

35. An improved limit on the axion-photon coupling from the CAST experiment

Author

Ioannis Giomataris, Ante Ljubičić, S. Gninenko, L. Stewart, H. Bräuninger, M. Davenport, Gerhard Lutz, Jakob Englhauser, Milica Krčmar, B. Beltrán, J.A. Villar, J. I. Collar, David Miller, L. Di Lella, A. Placci, J. M. Carmona, I. G. Irastorza, Markus Kuster, C. Lasseur, Krešimir Jakovčić, A. Ortiz, Konstantinos Kousouris, C. Eleftheriadis, S. Cebrián, E. Ferrer Ribas, A. Liolios, J. Jacoby, H. Fischer, Theodoros Geralis, D. Autiero, I. Savvidis, Yannis K. Semertzidis, Julia Vogel, M. D. Hasinoff, F.H. Heinsius, G. Luzón, T. Papaevangelou, Joaquin Vieira, Hector Gomez, J. Morales, J. Ruz, S. Andriamonje, R. Kotthaus, K. Barth, Pasquale D. Serpico, L. Walckiers, H. Riege, A Rodríguez, S. Aune, K. Königsmann, J. Franz, G. Fanourakis, T. Dafni, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, Georg G. Raffelt, A. Belov, Peter Friedrich, Konstantin Zioutas, D. Kang, Biljana Lakić, and A. Morales

Subjects
Particle physics, Photon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, Axion, Physics, Coupling, Helioscope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Axion Dark Matter Experiment, Astrophysics (astro-ph), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Stars, Globular cluster, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, axions, magnetic fields, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We have searched for solar axions or similar particles that couple to two photons by using the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) setup with improved conditions in all detectors. From the absence of excess X-rays when the magnet was pointing to the Sun, we set an upper limit on the axion-photon coupling of 8.8 x 10^{-11} GeV^{-1} at 95% CL for m_a, Comment: 24 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, to be submitted to JCAP; v2: minor changes in the exclusion plot; v3: minor changes to match accepted version

Published
2007

36. Prospects for the CERN Axion Solar Telescope sensitivity to 14.4 keV axions

Author

José Villar, A. Liolios, L. Di Lella, Thomas Papaevangelou, H. Riege, J. Franz, G. Fanourakis, Joachim Jacoby, Milica Krčmar, A. Morales, Ante Ljubičić, S. Andriamonje, J. M. Carmona, Pasquale D. Serpico, E. Ferrer Ribas, T. Dafni, Theodoros Geralis, L. Stewart, Y. Semertzidis, Julia Vogel, Biljana Lakić, K. Barth, G. Luzón, S. Cebrián, F. T. Avignone, B. Beltrán, Krešimir Jakovčić, A. Placci, Konstantinos Kousouris, Georg G. Raffelt, H. Fischer, A. Belov, K. Königsmann, M. D. Hasinoff, J. I. Collar, C. Lasseur, H. Bräuninger, J. Morales, David Miller, C. Eleftheriadis, Louis Walckiers, Markus Kuster, J. Ruz, Peter Friedrich, Konstantin Zioutas, S. Aune, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, I. G. Irastorza, M. Davenport, Gerhard Lutz, Ioannis Giomataris, Joaquin Vieira, D. Kang, R. Kotthaus, F.H. Heinsius, A. Ortiz, and S. N. Gninenko

Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics::Theory, solar axions, axion-photon coupling, axion-nucleon coupling, dark matter, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclide, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Axion, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Axion Dark Matter Experiment, Astrophysics (astro-ph), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Excited state, Ground state, CERN Axion Solar Telescope
Abstract

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is searching for solar axions using the 9.0 T strong and 9.26 m long transverse magnetic field of a twin aperture LHC test magnet, where axions could be converted into X-rays via reverse Primakoff process. Here we explore the potential of CAST to search for 14.4 keV axions that could be emitted from the Sun in M1 nuclear transition between the first, thermally excited state, and the ground state of 57Fe nuclide. Calculations of the expected signals, with respect to the axion-photon coupling, axion-nucleon coupling and axion mass, are presented in comparison with the experimental sensitivity., Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A

Published
2007

37. Search for solar axions: the CAST experiment

Author

A. Morales, M. D. Hasinoff, A. Ortiz, M. Davenport, H. Riege, F. H. Heinsius, J. M. Carmona, Thomas Papaevangelou, Georgios Fanourakis, A. Belov, Konstantinos Kousouris, Julia Vogel, Louis Walckiers, C. Eleftheriadis, Rainer Kotthaus, Sergei Gninenko, Markus Kuster, Peter Friedrich, K. Barth, G. Luzón, S. Andriamonje, Jakob Englhauser, Konstantin Zioutas, L. Stewart, J. I. Collar, T. Dafni, C. Lasseur, José Villar, S. Cebrián, I. G. Irastorza, Krešimir Jakovčić, S. Aune, A. Liolios, Joachim Jacoby, H. Fischer, Ioannis Giomataris, J. Morales, Georg G. Raffelt, J. Franz, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, L. Di Lella, Ante Ljubičić, Milica Krčmar, T. Geralis, B. Beltrán, A. Placci, K. Königsmann, David Miller, E. Ferrer-Ribas, J. Ruz, Joaquin Vieira, G. Lutz, Biljana Lakić, Pasquale D. Serpico, D. Kang, and Heinrich Bräuninger

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Helioscope, Photon, Large Hadron Collider, Solar energetic particles, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, Cosmic ray, Axion, Primakoff effect
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 showed no signal above the background, thus implying an upper limit to the axion‐photon coupling of gaγ < 1.16 × 10−10 GeV−1 at 95% CL for ma ≲ 0.02 eV. The stable operation of the experiment during 2004 data taking allowed us to lower down this parameter to a preliminary value of gaγ < 0.9 × 10−10 GeV−1.

Published
2006
Full Text
View/download PDF

38. First results from the CERN axion solar telescope

Author

Theodoros Geralis, M. Davenport, D. Kang, A. Nikolaidis, N. Goloubev, Gerhard Lutz, K. Königsmann, K. Kousouris, Peter Friedrich, Konstantin Zioutas, Biljana Lakić, L. Di Lella, G. Luzón, F.H. Heinsius, J. Morales, M. D. Hasinoff, Jakob Englhauser, C. Eleftheriadis, Georg G. Raffelt, E. Chesi, J. I. Collar, T. Papaevangelou, J. Jacoby, S. Andriamonje, A. Ortiz, H. A. Farach, T. Dafni, D. Autiero, Markus Kuster, J. Ruz, S. Cebrián, Yannis K. Semertzidis, R. J. Creswick, K. Barth, A. Morales, F. T. Avignone, H. Bräuninger, H. Riege, B. Beltrán, Pasquale D. Serpico, David Miller, A. Placci, J. M. Carmona, A. Belov, L. Stewart, R. Kotthaus, J. Franz, G. Fanourakis, I. Savvidis, L. Walckiers, H. Fischer, C. Lasseur, Efrain J. Ferrer, Milica Krčmar, J.A. Villar, Ante Ljubičić, A. Liolios, Joaquin Vieira, I. G. Irastorza, Ioannis Giomataris, M. Mutterer, M.L. Sarsa, W. Serber, S. Aune, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, K. Zachariadou, V. Arsov, and S. Gninenko

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Helioscope, PVLAS, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, Astrophysics (astro-ph), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, General Physics and Astronomy, axions, solar telescope, LHC, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Coupling (probability), 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Axion, Primakoff effect, Particle Physics - Experiment
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 (``axion helioscope'') they would be transformed into X-rays with energies of a few keV. Using a decommissioned LHC test magnet, CAST has been running for about 6 months during 2003. The first results from the analysis of these data are presented here. No signal above background was observed, implying an upper limit to the axion-photon coupling < 1.16 10^{-10} GeV^-1 at 95% CL for m_a, Comment: 4 pages, accepted by PRL. Final version after the referees comments

Published
2004

39. CERN Axion Solar Telescope as a probe of large extra dimensions

Author

Biljana Lakić, Milica Krčmar, and R. Horvat

Subjects
Quantum chromodynamics, Physics, Coupling constant, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Compactification (physics), Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, axion solar telescope, CAST experiment, Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Large extra dimension, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Axion
Abstract

We explore the potential of the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) for testing the presence of large extra dimensions. The CAST experiment has originally been proposed to search for solar axions with a sensitivity supposed to provide a limit on the axion-photon coupling g_{a\gamma\gamma}, Comment: Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D. Changes to the total rate formula in Sec. III. Conclusions remain essentially unchanged; 5 pages, 2 figures, revtex 4

Published
2003

40. THE CERN AXION SOLAR TELESCOPE

Author

Ioannis Giomataris, S. Gninenko, I. G. Irastorza, A. Liolios, K. Zachariadou, Milica Krčmar, D. Autiero, Gerhard Lutz, D. Kang, L. Walckiers, J.A. Villar, R. Schopper, N. Goloubev, F. Formenti, M. Mutterer, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, Konstantin Zioutas, E. Chesi, Ronald L. Brodzinski, Serkant Ali Cetin, H. Bräuninger, J. Morales, Sp. Dedoussis, B. Vullierme, I. Savvidis, J. Jacoby, H. A. Farach, S. Cebrián, R. J. Creswick, A. Morales, H. Riege, A. Placci, Biljana Lakić, R. De Oliveira, K. Königsmann, H. Fischer, Theodoros Geralis, L. Di Lella, Markus Kuster, A. Nikolaidis, G. Luzón, Ante Ljubičić, A. Delbart, Harry S. Miley, R. Hartmann, S. Andriamonje, M.L. Sarsa, C. Eleftheriadis, E. Arik, E. Bingol, T. Dafni, Georg G. Raffelt, J. I. Collar, M. D. Hasinoff, T. Papaevangelou, J. M. Carmona, C. Spano, R. Kotthaus, Georgios Fanourakis, I. Semertzidis, F. T. Avignone, K. Barth, and A. Ortiz

Subjects
Physics, Astronomy, CERN Axion Solar Telescope
Published
2003
Full Text
View/download PDF

41. Axion searches at CERN with the CAST Telescope

Author

J. I. Collar, M.L. Sarsa, R. Kotthaus, B. Vullierme, E. Arik, D. Kang, Gerhard Lutz, A. Nikolaidis, V. Vasileiou, J. M. Carmona, Markus Kuster, R. De Oliveira, Dieter Hoffmann, S. Cebrián, Serkant Ali Cetin, S. Andriamonje, T. Dafni, A. Placci, K. Zachariadou, F. Formenti, K. Barth, D. Autiero, I. G. Irastorza, Konstantin Zioutas, A. Liolios, G. Fanourakis, F. T. Avignone, H.A. Farach, I. Savvidis, E. Chesi, Ante Ljubičić, Richard J. Creswick, Harry S. Miley, A. Delbart, Milica Krčmar, R. Hartmann, H. Riege, J. Jacoby, J.A. Villar, C. Spano, R. Schopper, S. N. Gninenko, M. Mutterer, Georg G. Raffelt, H. Bräuninger, A. Ortiz, C. Eleftheriadis, I. Giomataris, S. Dedoussis, E. Bingol, Thomas Papaevangelou, H. Fischer, G. Cipolla, Theodoros Geralis, I. Semertzidis, G. Luzón, M. D. Hasinoff, N. Goloubev, J. Morales, L. Walckiers, K. Koenigsmann, R.L. Brodzinski, M. Davenport, L. Di Lella, Biljana Lakić, A. Morales, Flores, Sylvie, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)

Subjects
Physics, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Large Hadron Collider, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics (astro-ph), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, Telescope, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], High Energy Physics::Theory, 13. Climate action, law, [PHYS.ASTR.CO] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Axion
Abstract

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) searches for axions coming from photon to axion conversion in the sun's core, as stated by the Primakoff effect. Axions arise in particle physics as a consequence of the breaking of Peccei-Quinn symmetry which has been introduced as a solution to the strong CP problem. As cosmological axions they are candidates for at least some part of cold Dark Matter.They are also expected to be produced copiously in stellar interiors with energies as high as the thermal photons undergoing photon to axion conversion. In our sun the axion energy spectrum peaks at about 4.4 keV, extending up to 10 keV. CAST collected preliminary data in 2002 and data taking with its full capability will start in the beginning of 2003., NEB-X Conference on "New Developments in Gravity", May 30-June 2, 2002, Chalkidiki, GREECE. 5 pages, 2 figures

Published
2003

42. The CERN axion solar telescope (CAST): Status and prospects

Author

H. A. Farach, Georg G. Raffelt, I. Savvidis, M. Mutterer, J. M. Carmona, A. Nikolaidis, A. Ortiz, N. Goloubev, H. Fischer, C. Spano, J. I. Collar, Louis Walckiers, S. Cebrián, J. Morales, K. Königsmann, D. Autiero, Markus Kuster, R. J. Creswick, I. Giomataris, F. T. Avignone, Milica Krčmar, C. Eleftheriadis, Th. Papaevangelou, José Villar, R. De Oliveira, H. Riege, Ante Ljubičić, K. Barth, G. Luzón, Rainer Kotthaus, Harry S. Miley, G. Fanourskis, E. Arik, B. Vullierme, S. N. Gninenko, Ronald L. Brodzinski, L. Di Lella, F. Formenti, Konstantin Zioutas, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, G. Lutz, I. G. Irastorza, T. Geralis, A. Morales, M. Hasinoff, Biljana Lakić, S. Andriamonje, A. Liolios, J. Jacoby, A. Placci, D. Kang, Heinrich Bräuninger, Serkant Ali Cetin, A. Delbart, R. Hartmann, M.L. Sarsa, K. Zachariadou, and Flores, Sylvie

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Photon, Large Hadron Collider, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Cryogenics, [SDU.ASTR] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Magnetic field, Nuclear physics, CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST), [PHYS.ASTR.CO] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Magnet, High Energy Physics::Experiment, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Axion
Abstract

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 9.6 Tesla and length of 10 m and is installed in a platform which allows to move it +-8° vertically and +-40° horizontally. According to these numbers we expect a sensitivity in axion-photon coupling g_alpha gamma gamma

Published
2003

43. Recent searches for solar axions and large extra dimensions

Author

Biljana Lakić, R. Horvat, and Milica Krčmar

Subjects
Quantum chromodynamics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Order (ring theory), Context (language use), large extra dimensions, solar axions, Type (model theory), Astrophysics, Extra dimensions, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Solar core, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Ground state, Axion, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We analyze the data from two recent experiments designed to search for solar axions within the context of multidimensional theories of the Kaluza-Klein type. In these experiments, axions were supposed to be emitted from the solar core, in M1 transitions between the first excited state and the ground state of 57Fe and 7Li. Because of the high multiplicity of axionic Kaluza-Klein states which couple with the strength of ordinary QCD axions, we obtain much more stringent experimental limits on the four-dimensional Peccei-Quinn breaking scale f_{PQ}, compared with the solar QCD axion limit. Specifically, for the 57Fe experiment, f_{PQ}>1x10^6 GeV in theories with two extra dimensions and a higher-dimensional gravitational scale M_H of order 100 TeV, and f_{PQ}>1x10^6 GeV in theories with three extra dimensions and M_H of order 1 TeV (to be compared with the QCD axion limit, f_{PQ}>8x10^3 GeV). For the 7Li experiment, f_{PQ}>1.4x10^5 GeV and 3.4x10^5 GeV, respectively (to be compared with the QCD axion limit, f_{PQ}>1.9x10^2 GeV). It is an interesting feature of our results that, in most cases, the obtained limit on f_{PQ} cannot be coupled with the mass of the axion, which is essentially set by the (common) radius of the extra dimensions., 4 pages, revtex 4, minor changes, version accepted by PRD

Published
2001

44. Towards a new generation axion helioscope

Author

Biljana Lakić, M. Davenport, H. H. J. ten Kate, Milica Krčmar, L. Walckiers, J.A. Villar, I. G. Irastorza, J. M. Carmona, K. van Bibber, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, Ioannis Giomataris, S. Russenschuck, Alicia Rodríguez, Krešimir Jakovčić, Sergey Troitsky, G. Fanourakis, I. Shilon, Georg G. Raffelt, T. Papaevangelou, Theodoros Geralis, Julia Vogel, G. Luzón, J. A. Garcia, S. Caspi, F.J. Iguaz, Haley Louise Gomez, T. Dafni, F. T. Avignone, A. Tomás, J. Galán, Konstantin Zioutas, Javier Redondo, E. Ferrer-Ribas, A. Dudarev, J. Ruz, and Michael J. Pivovaroff

Subjects
Physics, Helioscope, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Dark matter, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electron, Coupling (probability), 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics::Theory, dark matter experiments, axions, Orders of magnitude (time), 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Axion
Abstract

We study the feasibility of a new generation axion helioscope, the most ambitious and promising detector of solar axions to date. We show that large improvements in magnetic field volume, x-ray focusing optics and detector backgrounds are possible beyond those achieved in the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST). For hadronic models, a sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling of $\gagamma\gtrsim {\rm few} \times 10^{-12}$ GeV$^{-1}$ is conceivable, 1--1.5 orders of magnitude beyond the CAST sensitivity. If axions also couple to electrons, the Sun produces a larger flux for the same value of the Peccei-Quinn scale, allowing one to probe a broader class of models. Except for the axion dark matter searches, this experiment will be the most sensitive axion search ever, reaching or surpassing the stringent bounds from SN1987A and possibly testing the axion interpretation of anomalous white-dwarf cooling that predicts $m_a$ of a few meV. Beyond axions, this new instrument will probe entirely unexplored ranges of parameters for a large variety of axion-like particles (ALPs) and other novel excitations at the low-energy frontier of elementary particle physics., 37 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in JCAP

Published
2011
Full Text
View/download PDF

45. The CAST time projection chamber

Author

I. G. Irastorza, F. Formenti, Konstantin Zioutas, E. Chesi, L. Di Lella, J. Morales, A. Placci, D. Autiero, L. Musa, M. D. Hasinoff, José Villar, J. Ruz, S. Cebrián, G. Luzón, J. M. Carmona, B. Beltrán, A. Ortiz, A Rodríguez, M. Delattre, Biljana Lakić, Hector Gomez, and M. Davenport

Subjects
Physics, Helioscope, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Time projection chamber, Photon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Detector, Other Fields of Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Proportional counter, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Optics, Electromagnetic shielding, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, business, Sensitivity (electronics)
Abstract

One of the three X-ray detectors of the CAST experiment searching for solar axions is a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with a multi-wire proportional counter (MWPC) as a readout structure. Its design has been optimized to provide high sensitivity to the detection of the low intensity X-ray signal expected in the CAST experiment. A low hardware threshold of 0.8 keV is safely set during normal data taking periods, and the overall efficiency for the detection of photons coming from conversion of solar axions is 62 %. Shielding has been installed around the detector, lowering the background level to 4.10 x 10^-5 counts/cm^2/s/keV between 1 and 10 keV. During phase I of the CAST experiment the TPC has provided robust and stable operation, thus contributing with a competitive result to the overall CAST limit on axion-photon coupling and mass., 19 pages, 11 figures and images, submitted to New Journal of Physics

Published
2007
Full Text
View/download PDF

46. First Results of the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST)

Author

T. Papaevangelou, I. Savvidis, A. Ortiz, F. H. Heinsius, Ioannis Giomataris, Georgios Fanourakis, F. T. Avignone, H. A. Farach, A. Morales, J. Ruz, I. G. Irastorza, J. M. Carmona, Pasquale D. Serpico, José Villar, Efrain J. Ferrer, Theodoros Geralis, L. Stewart, Milica Krčmar, A. Liolios, A. Placci, K. Barth, G. Luzón, M. Davenport, K. Königsmann, Peter Friedrich, K. Kousouris, Konstantin Zioutas, Joachim Jacoby, S. Cebrián, M. Mutterer, Biljana Lakić, S. Aune, M. D. Hasinoff, L. Di Lella, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, A. Nikolaidis, Jakob Englhauser, S. Andriamonje, Sergei Gninenko, Louis Walckiers, Markus Kuster, K. Zachariadou, Ante Ljubičić, V. Arsov, B. Beltrán, H. Riege, W. Serber, D. Autiero, J. Franz, C. Eleftheriadis, David Miller, E. Chesi, R. J. Creswick, T. Dafni, H. Fischer, M.L. Sarsa, D. Kang, Heinrich Bräuninger, J. I. Collar, C. Lasseur, Yannis K. Semertzidis, Georg G. Raffelt, N. Goloubev, J. Morales, A. Belov, Rainer Kotthaus, Joaquin Vieira, and G. Lutz

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Helioscope, Dark matter, Astrophysics, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Published
2005
Full Text
View/download PDF

47. Cast - A cern experiment to search for solar axions

Author

G. Lutz, E. Arik, D. Kang, J. Vogel, Javier Galan, Spyros Tzamarias, I. G. Irastorza, Heinrich Bräuninger, Serkant Ali Cetin, A. Belov, B. Beltrán, K. Barth, G. Luzón, Dieter Hoffmann, L. Di Lella, Yannis K. Semertzidis, J. Franz, F. H. Heinsius, A. Nordt, I. Hikmet, Georgios Fanourakis, M. Davenport, Konstantinos Kousouris, Milica Krčmar, M. J. Pivovaroff, Rainer Kotthaus, Konstantin Zioutas, J. M. Carmona, S. Aune, F. S. Boydag, T. Papaevangelou, T. Geralis, G. Bourlis, J. Ruz, D. J. Miller, I. Giomataris, I. Savvidis, Krešimir Jakovčić, A. Ortiz, K. Königsmann, Adriane De Assis Lawisch Rodriguez, D. Autiero, H. Fischer, C. Eleftheriadis, Regina Soufli, J. Morales, L. Stewart, O. B. Dogan, Louis Walckiers, T. Dafni, J. I. Collar, Markus Kuster, E. Ferrer-Ribas, M. D. Hasinoff, C. Lasseur, Hector Gomez, Pasquale D. Serpico, Georg G. Raffelt, A. Placci, José Villar, K. van Bibber, Ante Ljubičić, A. Morales, S. Cebrián, Biljana Lakić, A. Liolios, H. Riege, Joachim Jacoby, Sergei Gninenko, Doğuş Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Fizik Bölümü, TR3959, and Belirlenecek

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Dark matter, Particle identification, law.invention, Telescope, High Energy Physics::Theory, Axion, law, Dark Matter, Astronomical telescopes, Solar Particles and Photons
Abstract

The CAST experiment at CERN is the only running solar axion telescope. The first results obtained so far with CAST - PHASE I is presented, which compete with the best astrophysically derived limits of the axion-to-photon coupling. The ongoing PHASE II of the experiment as well as the scheduled upgrades, which improve the axion discovery potential of CAST, are discussed. Baklan Physical Uniaon; Türk Fizik Derneği; İstanbul Üniversitesi; Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi.

48. Improved search for solar chameleons with a GridPix detector at CAST

Author

Wolfgang Funk, Milica Krčmar, T. Geralis, M. Maroudas, S. C. Yildiz, I. G. Irastorza, Joachim Jacoby, Sofia Kostoglou, Babette Döbrich, Sergei Gninenko, Giovanni Cantatore, C. Krieger, Søren Schmidt, M. Davenport, Marin Karuza, I. Ortega, M. J. Pivovaroff, Konstantin Zioutas, C. J. Hailey, J. Ruz, S. Neff, L. Miceli, T. Papaevangelou, S. Aune, Georg G. Raffelt, T. Dafni, I. Savvidis, M. Vretenar, Klaus Kurt Desch, Biljana Lakić, A. Liolios, Georgios Fanourakis, Nenad Kralj, Alexander Dermenev, J. F. Castel, A. Belov, Krešimir Jakovčić, L. Stewart, Dieter Hoffmann, Sami K. Solanki, Heinrich Bräuninger, Serkant Ali Cetin, E. Ruiz Chóliz, F.J. Iguaz, Vassilis Anastassopoulos, H. Fischer, A. Gardikiotis, Yannis K. Semertzidis, M. D. Hasinoff, C. Eleftheriadis, Jochen Kaminski, Anders Clemen Jakobsen, K. Paraschou, E. Ferrer-Ribas, J. M. Carmona, Julia Vogel, Theodoros Vafeiadis, J. G. Garza, K. Barth, G. Luzón, Walter Wuensch, I. Giomataris, M. Rosu, P. Brax, Ante Ljubičić, J. M. Laurent, J. A. Garcia, Evangelos Gazis, Finn Erland Christensen, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681 (IPHT), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CAST, Anastassopoulos, V., Aune, S., Barth, K., Belov, A., Bräuninger, H., Cantatore, G., Carmona, J. M., Castel, J. F., Cetin, S. A., Christensen, F., Dafni, T., Davenport, M., Dermenev, A., Desch, K., Döbrich, B., Eleftheriadis, C., Fanourakis, G., Ferrer-Ribas, E., Fischer, H., Funk, W., García, J. A., Gardikiotis, A., Garza, J. G., Gazis, E. N., Geralis, T., Giomataris, I., Gninenko, S., Hailey, C. J., Hasinoff, M. D., Hoffmann, D. H. H., Iguaz, F. J., Irastorza, I. G., Jakobsen, A., Jacoby, J., Jakovčić, K., Kaminski, J., Karuza, M., Kostoglou, S., Kralj, N., Krčmar, M., Krieger, C., Lakić, B., Laurent, J. M., Liolios, A., Ljubičić, A., Luzón, G., Maroudas, M., Miceli, L., Neff, S., Ortega, I., Papaevangelou, T., Paraschou, K., Pivovaroff, M. J., Raffelt, G., Rosu, M., Ruz, J., Chóliz, E. Ruiz, Savvidis, I., Schmidt, S., Semertzidis, Y. K., Solanki, S. K., Stewart, L., Vafeiadis, T., Vogel, J. K., Vretenar, M., Wuensch, W., Yildiz, S. C., Zioutas, K., and Brax, P.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Photon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar luminosity, magnetic field, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), photon: coupling, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, GridPix, dark energy, modified gravity, physics.ins-det, Solar physics, Physics, dark energy experiments, particle physics - cosmology connection, solar physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, chameleon: solar, solar physic, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Coupling (probability), transition: (axion photon), dark energy experiment, Beta (plasma physics), Physics::Space Physics, CAST, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, CERN Axion Solar Telescope, Particle Physics - Experiment, chameleon, Modified gravity, Particle physics, CERN Lab, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, photon: spectrum, coupling constant: upper limit, Tachocline, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, X-ray, Dark energy experiments, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Sensitivity (control systems), hep-ex, background, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, magnet, coupling: (axion 2photon), Particle physics - cosmology connection, axion: solar, tachocline, Energy (signal processing), experimental results
Abstract

We report on a new search for solar chameleons with the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST). A GridPix detector was used to search for soft X-ray photons in the energy range from 200 eV to 10 keV from converted solar chameleons. No signiffcant excess over the expected background has been observed in the data taken in 2014 and 2015. We set an improved limit on the chameleon photon coupling, $\beta_\gamma < 5.7\times10^{10}$ for $1, Comment: 19 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables

Full Text
View/download PDF

Catalog

Books, media, physical & digital resources
See catalog results